DEMOCRACY FOR ALL:
RESTORING IMMIGRANT VOTING RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES

Ron Hayduk's book examines the politics and practices of noncitizen voting, chronicling the rise, fall, and re-emergence of immigrant voting in the United States.  Democracy for All also takes a close look at the politics of and actors in recent campaigns to  reestablish noncitizen voting.

 

LOCKOUT:
WHY AMERICA KEEPS GETTING IMMIGRATION WRONG WHEN OUR PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON GETTING IT RIGHT

 

Michele Wucker's book challenges commonly held myths about how immigrants become Americans and what Americans themselves do to encourage or discourage immigrant participation in U.S civic life.

 

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The Immigrant Voting Project is a resource and a network dedicated to promoting informed discussion about the practice of noncitizen immigrants voting. Immigrant voting promotes civic participation, gives voice to one of the last disenfranchised segments of the population, and increases government accountability in immigrant communities.
 

Historically, noncitizens voted in local, state and federal elections in 40 states and federal territories.  Currently, noncitizens vote in seven jurisdictions in the United States, and another three towns have passed local laws but await state enabling legislation to implement.  More than a dozen other cities are -- or recently have -- considered restoring immigrant voting rights. 
 
This website is a central hub for information about and organizing among advocates of immigrant voting rights.   The project was founded in 2003 by current co-directors Ron Hayduk and Michele Wucker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THINK AGAIN
Common Misconceptions
Isn't voting just for citizens?

The Unconscious Suffragists

Quotes from leading historical figures

Suffragettes and Immigrants

The relationship between the women's suffrage and immigrant voting rights movements

Disenfranchisement Practices
The end of immigrant voting rights was part and parcel of a broader effort to disenfranchise many Americans --one that continues today.


The Immigrant Voting Project is a member organization of the Moving Ideas network. Click above for more information.

 

 

 

"Universal suffrage prolongs in the United States the effect of universal education: for it stimulates all citizens throughout their lives to reflect on problems outside the narrow circle of their private interests and occupations: to read about public questions; to discuss public characters and to hold themselves ready in some degree to give a rational account of their political faith."
-Dr. Charles Eliot