In a new interview on PBS, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D.) said she’s open to non-citizens and minors voting in municipal elections.
Margaret Hoover, host of PBS’s “Firing Line,” asked Abrams about progressive cities such as San Francisco where non-citizens can vote in local elections. Abrams said “there’s a big difference between municipal and state and federal” elections, and the larger democratic norms in the U.S. aren’t damaged by non-citizens voting on local matters.
“I’m not arguing for it or against it, but I will say having been deputy city attorney, the granularity of what cities decide is so specific as to, I think, allow people to be participants in the process without it somehow undermining our larger democratic ethic that says that you should be a citizen to be a part of the conversation,” Abrams said.
Hoover pressed Abrams on whether she supports the idea, and she said she “wouldn’t oppose it.” – READ MORE