Here is a bit more on non-citizen voting in an historical context: The 1871 Texas statute was typical of the approach taken in the 19th Century. It allowed to vote: "every male person of foreign birth, subject to none of the foregoing disqualifications, who, at any time before an election, shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, in accordance with the federal naturalization laws, and shall have resided in this State one year next preceding such election." These were called "intending citizen" laws and they would today be equivalent to allowing anyone with a green card and one year of residence to vote. The laws began to be repealed with the advent of Jewish and Italian mass immigration at the end of the 1890s, the rise of the KKK, and the coming of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:41:43 +0000
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