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New York becomes the largest American city to allow those who are not US citizens but legally reside there to vote in local elections, starting in January ’23. The city council decided by a large majority, guaranteeing this faculty to over 800,000 residents despite the objections of the mayor Bill de Blasio, who questioned the power of the ‘City Council’ to grant voting rights to “noncitizens”. The move places NYC at the forefront of the debate on this matter, in stark contrast to the crackdown on various republican states.