Judge Tosses Challenge, Upholds Law Allowing 'Noncitizens' To Vote In Washington

 The plaintiffs failed to demonstrate 'that they have personally been subjected to any sort of disadvantage as individual voters,' the judge said.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Washington, D.C., law allowing "Noncitizen residents" to vote in local elections.

They argued that "Noncitizens" do not have a fundamental right to vote in the United States and that allowing them to cast ballots and hold office in the District of Columbia dilutes the votes of U.S. citizens.

The group, in their complaint, argued that vote dilution caused by expanding the franchise to illegal immigrants has been analyzed under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment "On the ground that they discriminate against an identifiable group by harming that group while benefitting another."

In an opinion issued Thursday, Judge Jackson determined that the seven plaintiffs failed to demonstrate "That they have personally been subjected to any sort of disadvantage as individual voters by virtue of the fact that noncitizens are permitted to vote, too."

"They may object as a matter of policy to the fact that immigrants get to vote at all, but their votes will not receive less weight or be treated differently than noncitizens' votes," the judge wrote.

The IRLI's executive director, Dale Wilcox, also said in the statement, "If laws like this are not struck down, next there will be calls in many states to allow aliens to vote in statewide and even federal elections." Noncitizen Voting Act The law in question, known as the Noncitizen Voting Act, removed the prior citizenship requirement for voting in municipal elections, allowing all residents over 18 who have lived in the district for 30 days, regardless of immigration status, to vote in local elections only. 

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