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Los Angeles takes BIG STEP toward noncitizen voting · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Foreigners may be able to vote in Los Angeles soon
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  Speaker 1: thanks to the City Council. They put a measure on
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  Speaker 1: November's ballot allowing the city government to grant non citizens
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  Speaker 1: the right to vote. Proponents argue, it's about equality.
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  Speaker 2: This issue, to me is really about fairness and representation.
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  Speaker 2: It just does not make sense to me that someone
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  Speaker 2: who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has
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  Speaker 2: more of a voice than a parent who has been
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  Speaker 2: here for decades raising their children through our public schools.
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  Speaker 2: Are people here that can't vote? We can't count on the.
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  Speaker 3: Tea party to show up and defend them for taxation
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  Speaker 3: without representation.
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  Speaker 1: But not everyone on the council was on board.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know that the county has actually been
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  Speaker 4: consulted in their ability to implement such a concept.
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  Speaker 5: The practical effect is that council members would be empowered
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  Speaker 5: to make significant changes to election laws.
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  Speaker 2: Election laws should.
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  Speaker 4: Never be viewed through the lens of who benefits politically.
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  Speaker 1: But Los Angeles isn't alone in those efforts. Several cities
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  Speaker 1: across the country have already implemented or attempted to pass
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  Speaker 1: similar measures. Wow, Tom Shaloo, I remember the LA mayoral
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  Speaker 1: debate between Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt, and Nythia Raman, and
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  Speaker 1: they were asked the specific question about non citizens voting.
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  Speaker 1: Karen Bass gave a non answer. I think Nythia Rahman
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  Speaker 1: was in favor. Spencer Pratt said no, absolutely not. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have Spencer Pratt in that race anymore. It's
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  Speaker 1: now Karen Bass, Nythia Rahman. And it looks like they
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  Speaker 1: kind of got their wish here that this is advancing
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  Speaker 1: and people are talking about it. What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the chances are that non citizens
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  Speaker 1: are going to have their voices heard in LA.
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  Speaker 5: It's happening more and more, and obviously with the rise
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  Speaker 5: of the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America that are
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  Speaker 5: winning all the democratic elections. This is where it's headed.
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  Speaker 5: In the bluest cities, in the bluest states, that's where
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  Speaker 5: it begins, and then it spreads across the country. Think
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  Speaker 5: only is this a non starter? We have to go back.
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  Speaker 5: Already we have higher representation in Congress for people. For
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  Speaker 5: states that have more illegal aliens, you get more representation.
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  Speaker 5: You are rewarded for your illegal alien population. Now, of
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  Speaker 5: course they want to they already have that now they
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  Speaker 5: want them to register to vote. I think they're already
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  Speaker 5: voting to some extent. People said, they always say there's
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  Speaker 5: no widespread fraud in elections. We don't need widespread Look
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  Speaker 5: at every election, half a percentage point wins an election.
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  Speaker 5: Now you don't need widespread fraud. You need a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of fraud.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Joey. You know, the Democrats say, well, we'll limit
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  Speaker 1: it to just the non citizens in these local elections.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them, who are less honest, will say, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't want illegal aliens to vote in federal elections.
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  Speaker 1: We just want the non citizens to vote in these
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  Speaker 1: local elections.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the lie, right, Yeah, that's that's they get
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  Speaker 3: They get around it. Yeah, Well, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 3: not Devil's advocate, but at least be fair here and
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  Speaker 3: say that what they're saying in California is that they're
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  Speaker 3: specifically looking for DACA temporary protected status holders and in
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  Speaker 3: legal permanent residents to have the ability to vote in
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  Speaker 3: local elections. I kind of take a step back and say,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want the federal government telling states and local
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  Speaker 3: municipalities how to handle their elections.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want that.
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  Speaker 3: That's the rub I have with HR one when the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats took hold, and I don't want even Republicans to
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  Speaker 3: pass legislation that federalizes elections, because I do. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want something stupid that Oregon wants to do, if they
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  Speaker 3: have enough people in Congress to pass, to happen here
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  Speaker 3: in Georgia. So like it's the Devil's advocate, kind of
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  Speaker 3: like the catch twenty two. But that being said, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems pretty common sense to me that there's
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  Speaker 3: a reason why you're a citizen. There's benefits that come
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  Speaker 3: with being a citizen that if you're here legally, there's
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  Speaker 3: probably a pathway to citizenship if you want the benefits
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  Speaker 3: to do the like, that's the reward. The reward is
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  Speaker 3: becoming a citizen, getting to vote, getting to partake. I understand.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give the gentleman the intellectual argument of taxation without
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  Speaker 3: representation that exists all over the place already. Anyway, I
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  Speaker 3: get taxed, my tax dollars go to all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: stuff they don't have any representation on to include I
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  Speaker 3: guess California fraud, as we learned a few segments ago.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know that's a great argument for it.
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  Speaker 1: Lydia Joy brings up a great point about the value
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  Speaker 1: of citizenship and what that means in this country, and
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  Speaker 1: it feels like they're perchance trying to dilute that a bit.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you. I mean, I think that's one
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  Speaker 4: of the greatest privileges of becoming a citizenship is the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to vote and participate fairly in your elections. And
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  Speaker 4: when you allow non citizens or non permanent resident, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: when you let other people start to participate, it dilutes
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  Speaker 4: the value of your own ability to participate in your
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  Speaker 4: own local municipal election. You know what concerns me here
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  Speaker 4: is New York City tried this, it failed, But now
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  Speaker 4: we're seeing this effort taking shape in Los Angeles and
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of other places that we should on the screen,
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  Speaker 4: just California, Maryland, Vermont, some other places in California, San Francisco,
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  Speaker 4: and Oakland. So it starts in one place, you know, Joey,
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  Speaker 4: I think you're just talking about it. You know, it
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  Speaker 4: just it spreads, it spreads, and you just you don't
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  Speaker 4: want to see something like that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it comes to a point where these politicians don't
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  Speaker 1: have to win over Americans anymore, because if they have
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  Speaker 1: enough non citizens slash or illegals, if they just win
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  Speaker 1: them over, perhaps with perks, privileges, and entitlements, then perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they don't have to woo the American people anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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