The Republican National Committee is launching a suit against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the city council and the city board of elections over a new policy allowing around up to 900,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections.
The RNC is filing suit together with the New York GOP and state and local office holders, including city council members who voted against the legislation.
'American elections should be decided by American citizens. If Democrats can subvert elections this flagrantly in America’s largest city, they can do it anywhere,' RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement provided to DailyMail.com.
'The RNC is suing to protect the integrity of our elections, and we stand ready to do the same wherever Democrats try to attack the basic security of your ballot.'
Our City Our Vote, a campaign that pushed for non-citizen suffrage, estimated that the new bill would add around 900,000 to the city's voter rolls.
The New York City Board of Elections would be responsible for the new voters' registration, and would need to produce different ballots for non-citizen voters.
The New York City Council passed the law last month, and the city's new mayor allowed the bill to automatically become law on Sunday.
Unless a judge halts its implementation, New York City will be the first major U.S. city to grant widespread municipal voting rights to non-citizens beginning next year.
More than a dozen communities across the U.S. already allow non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont.
Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw condemned the new law on Twitter.
'Foreigners shouldn’t be voting in American elections. You prove your loyalty to our country by becoming a citizen. Then you vote. How is this even up for debate?' he wrote.
Adams defended himself Sunday against criticism from members of his own party claiming that he did not support the legislation.
'No, I did not change my mind,' Adams told CNN's Jake Tapper on the State of the Union program. 'I supported the concept of the bill.'
'The one aspect of that I had a problem with and I thought was problematic, was the 30-day part, of being in the country for 30 days, was the place that I had questions,' he clarified. 'And I sat down with my colleagues. I'm a big believer in conversation. We have to start talking to each other, and not at each other. And after hearing their rationale and their theories behind it, I thought it was more important to not veto the bill or get in the way at all, and allow to build a move forward.'
The New York City Council passed the law last month, and the city's new mayor Eric Adams allowed the bill to automatically become law on Sunday
More than a dozen communities across the U.S. already allow non-citizens to cast ballots in local elections, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont
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