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Noncitizen NYC Residents Barred from Voting for Bolts Feature

Hi all, longtime NYC reporter here covering mostly immigration and politics. Working on a piece for the online magazine Bolts (boltsmag.org) broadly about the would-be voters who were planning on or enthusiastic about voting in the upcoming November election (or the June primary) before the State Court of Appeals struck down the city's noncitizen voting law. Working theory here is that a lot of folks would be motivated to turn out given that the city's sanctuary provisions are now a major issue in the election, plus Mamdani's primary campaign seems to have activated a number of new voters itself, which I think could have included a number of longtime noncitizen residents had that law remained in place. Noncitizens are a huge chunk of the city's population, around 1.8 million people, mostly adults, effectively excluded from the electoral process. In that vein, I'm hoping to chat with some folks who wanted to vote but can't anymore as a result of the ruling. This is a discussion forum so I'm sure folks will have plenty to say on the merits of the law and the ruling here, which is great, but also hoping to separately speak to individual people at some length to get a sense of these "missing" voters. If that's you, feel free to get in touch and I can answer any questions about the specifics of the story. Thanks, all.

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