Thread: SF: New Try to Let Non-Citizens Vote

New try to let non-citizens vote

Non-citizen immigrants whose children are enrolled in San Francisco public schools would be able to vote in school board elections, under a proposed charter amendment for the fall ballot that Board of Supervisors President David Chiu will introduce Tuesday.

The proposal resurrects a ballot measure that city voters narrowly rejected six years ago, with 49 percent in favor and 51 percent opposed.

Chiu ran the 2004 campaign in favor of the limited extension of voting rights and said the idea deserves a second airing. He said an estimated 1 in 3 households with children in public schools are headed by parents who aren't citizens.

Allowing them to vote in Board of Education races would help boost their involvement in their children's education, Chiu said. ''And that helps improve the quality of the schools,'' Chiu said.

Posted By: Rachel Gordon (Email) | May 17 2010 at 06:53 PM

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This Chiu character needs to be tried as a traitor and then exiled!

Make no doubts about it, this guy fell off of a turnip truck.

Total BS!! Glad I dont live there and pay into the school district.

still glad i dont live in Calif.
this is just another reason to BOYCOTT san francisco

We rejected this six years ago....and now everyone is ten times more pssd off then they were then. It aint gonna happen. No way.

--what a bum rap for the millions of conservative Americans in Cali.

The state that gave us Duncan Hunter, Dana and a host fo other great Americans. They are being overpowered and overrun and Conan the Governator has no intent to help them.

Originally Posted by misterbill

--what a bum rap for the millions of conservative Americans in Cali.

The state that gave us Duncan Hunter, Dana and a host fo other great Americans. They are being overpowered and overrun and Conan the Governator has no intent to help them.

It is not just conservatives that are fed up here. Many liberals have had enough as well. Crazy people are driving the boat....so to speak. We have to do something. There are not that many people left in ess eff that are still advocating for the ruination of the state.