title: media selfdestruct over trump
text: some cities want their noncitizen immigrants to vote caroline winter bloomberg businessweek october   
  look at illegal immigrants voting all over the country donald trump recently claimed in a fox news interview part of his ongoing effort to cast doubt on the integrity of the presidential election theres no evidence to support the republican nominees claims of election fraud but some cities are moving to expand voting rights to include noncitizens 
  the latest is san francisco where the nov  ballot will include a measure allowing the parents or legal guardians of any student in the citys public schools to vote in school board elections the right would be extended to those with green cards visas or no documentation at all one out of three kids in the san francisco unified school system has a parent who is an immigrant who is disenfranchised and doesnt have a voice says san francisco assemblyman david chiu the son of taiwanese immigrants weve had legal immigrants whove had children go through the entire k system without having a say undocumented immigrants should also have the right chiu adds to bypass the broken immigration system in this country 
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  today there are six jurisdictions in maryland that let noncitizens vote in local elections chicago allows them to take part in elected parent advisory councils but not to vote in school board elections four towns in massachusetts have moved to allow noncitizen voting and are awaiting state approval and in new york city where noncitizens make up  percent of the votingage population the city council is drafting legislation that would allow more than  million legal residents to take part in municipal elections the city previously allowed noncitizens to vote in school board elections but that ended when new yorks school boards were dissolved in  
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