I wonder what this means?
New York City will allow 800,000 noncitizens to vote in local elections
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Ron Hayduk, a professor of political science at San Francisco State University, about New York City allowing noncitizen immigrants to vote in local elections.
Lawmakers in New York City have approved legislation that will allow about 800,000 legal non-citizens to vote in local elections. The decision centered on one big question - who exactly should have a stake in American democracy? I talked with Ron Hayduk about this. He's a political science professor at San Francisco State University and the author of "Democracy For All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights In The United States."
Explain the significance, as you see it, of the decision in New York to extend voting rights in local elections to non-citizen immigrants.