ABSTRACT
First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.
Acknowledgments, Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. The Rise and Fall of Immigrant Voting in U.S. History: 1776 to 1926, Chapter 3. The Return of Immigrant Voting: Demographic Change and Political Mobilization, Chapter 4. The Case for Immigrant Voting Rights, Chapter 5. Contemporary Immigrant Voting: Maryland, New York, and Chicago, Chapter 6. Campaigns to Restore Immigrant Voting Rights: California, New York, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts, Chapter 7. The Future of Immigrant Voting, Works Cited, Notes, Index
