“If, in the future, people want to allow noncitizens to start voting, I think it should be very difficult to make that change. That’s why we have a constitutional process that we have,”

— Wisconsin State Senator Julian Bradley

(from the September 26, 2024 Wisconsin Journal Sentinel article, “What to know about noncitizen voting and the November referendum question in Wisconsin”)

There’s a federal law that prevents noncitizens from voting in federal elections, like for president. But some cities in states like Maryland, California and Washington, D.C., do allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. In San Francisco, for example, parents and guardians who aren’t U.S. citizens can vote in school board elections.

There hasn’t been a significant, recent push in Wisconsin to allow noncitizen voting in local communities. Still, it’s an idea supported by Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera.

Read the entire article here.