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City Council Member-Elect Sandy Nurse Calls for Expanding Voting Rights to Green Card Holders

Nurse, along with a group of other elected officials and organizers, are calling on Speaker Cory Johnson to schedule a vote for the bill Intro 1867.

City Council Member-Elect Sandy Nurse Calls for Expanding Voting Rights to Green Card Holders
via New York Immigration Coalition Instagram.

City Council Member-Elect Sandy Nurse Calls for Expanding Voting Rights to Green Card Holders

Nurse, along with a group of other elected officials and organizers, are calling on Speaker Cory Johnson to schedule a vote for the bill Intro 1867.

City Council Member-Elect Sandy Nurse Calls for Expanding Voting Rights to Green Card Holders

With the current City Council session coming to an end, Sandy Nurse, who will soon represent Bushwick’s 37th District in City Council, has called on NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson to schedule a City Council vote for Intro 1867, a bill which would expand voting rights for green card holders and other immigrants with work authorization who have lived in New York City for at least 30 days. 

If enacted, the law would allow nearly 1 million immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections for New York City offices, including the City…

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