Resident voting is an old American practice — and a live local question.
The Immigrant Voting Project collected the forgotten chapter: until the 1920s, some forty U.S. states and territories let noncitizen residents vote. Federal law now bars noncitizens from federal elections (Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, 1996). No state lets noncitizens vote statewide. A handful of cities still run a separate local ballot — school board, council — for residents who pay taxes and send children to school. This site keeps that map, the world timeline, and the legal line between a municipal roll and a presidential one.