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Democracy for All Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. 1st Edition

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Full Title

Democracy for All Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. 1st Edition

Author(s)

Ron Hayduk

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781136791352, 9780415950725, 9781283607131, 9780203956151, 9780415950732, 9780429238543, 9780203826041, 9781135421809, 9781135421946, 9781135421878, 9781136791314, 9781136791369

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country’s history – from the founding until the 1920s – noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.