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Inside LA City Council’s sneaky plan to give illegal aliens voting rights

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Will illegal aliens be voting in Los Angeles city elections by 2028?

Last week’s 10-5 vote by the LA City Council makes it possible.

The council voted to place a charter amendment before voters, giving future city leaders authority to allow non-citizens to vote in city and school board elections.

At first glance, that may not sound particularly alarming.

After all, voters are not being asked to approve non-citizen voting.

Instead, voters are being asked to approve a technical change to the city charter, and to trust the City Council to work out the details later.

Conveniently, the controversial part comes after the election.

The measure does not limit voting to green card holders. It does not limit voting to lawful permanent residents. It does not even specify that those eligible must be residing in the United States legally.

Those omissions matter.

If supporters wanted to limit voting to lawful permanent residents, they could have written that limitation into the charter amendment. They didn’t.

If they wanted to prohibit voting by illegal aliens, they could have written that limitation into the charter amendment. They didn’t.

Instead, LA voters are being asked to sign a blank check.

This is not an accident.

It is the entire point of the exercise.

The liberal Democrats who control LA understand that a ballot measure explicitly allowing illegal aliens to vote would face fierce opposition from voters. So instead they are asking voters for authority, not permission. The permission comes later, after the charter has already been changed.

Supporters........

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