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NY Mag Goes From ‘Noncitizen Voting Is Imaginary’ To ‘Here’s Why It’s Good’

When acknowledging noncitizen voting would have helped Republicans galvanize support for the SAVE America Act, the magazine dismissed concerns as ‘imaginary.’

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“The GOP Is Panicking Over Noncitizen Voting. It’s Imaginary,” read a headline in New York Magazine this past February. The article maligned Republican efforts to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. New York Magazine accused Republicans of focusing on a “phantom menace of noncitizen voting.”

Fast forward seven months and New York Magazine has gone from claiming that noncitizen voting is “imaginary” to asking “Why is noncitizen voting so terrifying?”

NY Magazine’s Zak Cheney-Rice focuses his latest piece on New York City’s Local Law 11, which would have allowed noncitizens to vote in local elections before it was shot down by the state’s highest court. The legislation would have made roughly 800,000 noncitizens eligible for voting for offices like council or mayor. Those eligible would have included lawful permanent residents and others authorized to work in the United States who had been living in the city for at least 30 days.

This law was in no way an “imaginary” change. In fact, it was a real point of contention that had been around long before New York Magazine’s February article dismissing noncitizen voting as “imaginary.” Had the law gone into effect, noncitizens could have constituted a significant part of the Big Apple electorate and could have exceeded margins of victory in tight local races — not an “imaginary” problem by any means.

And while the SAVE America Act pertains to federal elections and the New York City law regarded local elections, the distinction still doesn’t change the fact that in February, New York Magazine treated Republican concerns about noncitizen voting as a “phantom” hysteria rooted in white supremacy. Yet now when discussing Democrats’ past efforts to allow noncitizens to vote, New York Magazine doesn’t merely acknowledge the “imaginary” problem is actually real — instead, it tries to convince readers that preventing noncitizen voting is actually evil and that maybe this Democrat-backed legislation to allow noncitizens to vote was the right move all along.

Cheney-Rice frames his pro-noncitizen voting story through the story of Ydanis Rodriguez, a councilman who sponsored the legislation. Rodriguez immigrated from the Dominican Republic, lived in the United States on a green card, and “paid taxes” and “was part of the community, but could not vote” until he was granted citizenship in 2000.

“Was citizenship,” Cheney-Rice asked, “really what turned him from someone who was not qualified to help choose the mayor into someone who........

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