In todays New York Post,
New York Post they had the following
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mmigration activists packed a City Council hearing yesterday to demand noncitizens be allowed to vote in municipal elections — an idea Mayor Bloomberg vehemently opposes.
The council is considering whether to let residents who've been in the city six months or longer vote in local elections.
An estimated 1 million New Yorkers, about 20 percent of the adult population, don't have voting rights, although they pay $18.2 billion a year in state income taxes, the activists said.
"We do not have a truly functional democracy when . . . over 70 percent of the voting-age population of certain ethnicities and election districts can't vote," said Bryan Pu-Folkes, of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, before the council's Government Operation's Committee.
But Karen Meara, Bloomberg's director of legislative affairs, said in a letter to the council that the bill was "inconsistent with the state Constitution" and would require a referendum.
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I happen to agree with Bloomberg on this. If you want to be able to vote you need to be a citizen. I can work in any other question, and have to pay their taxes, but that does nto entitle me to a vote.