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New York's highest court just ruled against NYC's law allowing non-citizens to vote.
Voting is limited to citizens, the court ruled.
It was a 6-to-1 decision.
New York’s top court has struck down a law that would have let noncitizens vote in New York City elections, with the court’s progressive majority overwhelmingly siding with Republicans who challenged the idea, wrote Politico.
The law would have made more than 800,000 people eligible to vote in municipal contests such as mayoral races.
“It is plain from the language and restrictions contained in [the state constitution] that ‘citizen’ is not meant as a floor, but as a condition of voter eligibility: the franchise extends only to citizens whose right to vote is established by proper proofs,” Judge Rowan Wilson wrote.
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