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The Ballot Measure to Let Noncitizens Vote in Los Angeles Is Dead—for Now

The Los Angeles City Council has reversed course on a ballot measure that would have asked voters in the nation’s second-largest city to decide whether noncitizens may vote in city and school board elections. However, this news isn’t as simple as it might seem.

The motion’s author, Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez, said that he authored the motion for noncitizen voting because groups that represent illegal aliens asked him to do so, but then he had second thoughts when his own black constituents pushed back.

Soto-Martinez said that he hasn’t had a change of heart, but that “more work needed to be done before the issue is presented to voters.” Translation: He thinks he just has a PR problem.

Councilwoman Traci Park initially voted for the measure but changed her mind. “My concern here is that if this goes to the ballot, the voters won’t really know what they are voting for,” she said,“because we don’t really know either.”

The original motion passed 10-5—only to be reversed by a 14-0 vote. Was the unanimous change of heart the product of the realization that they hadn’t done their due diligence, or was it because they had been caught in the act by a suddenly attentive nation? Only the council members know for........

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