“I have no problem if they’re already here, and they’re volutneering in schools, or whatever, that’s great, but at this point I think we’re really going off the deep end if we start letting people who aren’t here legally vote, even in local elections.”

— Sandra Siraganian, the Republican Party chair for Assembly District 41

(From the August 28, 2017 Pasadena Star News article, “Pasadena group pushing to give voting rights to non-citizen PUSD parents”)

Two weeks after San Francisco voters passed a measure allowing noncitizen parents to vote in school board elections, Pasadena voters are organizing in hopes of doing the same.

At a forum Tuesday, Ronald Hayduk, an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University, spoke about the history of noncitizen voting in the U.S., and the ways in which a campaign to advocate for noncitizen voting rights could be successful.

The group hosting the event, Pasadenans Empowering Parental Participation in Educational Governance (PEPPEG), is trying to put a measure on the ballot in 2020 that would allow for all Pasadena Unified School District parents, regardless of citizenship, to vote for the district’s school board members.

Read the entire article here.