Montpelier City Clerk John Odum chuckled when he was asked how many noncitizens had registered to vote ahead of the Vermont city’s municipal elections in March — the first time they will have the chance to cast ballots.
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Not a single person has asked to be signed up, he told The Washington Times earlier this month.
City residents went through a significant ordeal to grant legally present noncitizens the right to vote. They won an amendment to the city charter, got approval from the state legislature and then surmounted a governor’s veto.
Yet with just a few weeks to go, noncitizens don’t seem to have much interest in flexing their new power.
“Right now, we have zero,” Mr. Odum said.
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