MSU Student Government Votes to Give Minors, Aliens the Right to Vote

Local governments can get a little crazy sometimes in trying to go around federal or state laws, we see that happen all the time in Ludington; but sometimes these little fiefs can go plumb loco with their own delusions of power.  Like most colleges and universities, Michigan State University (MSU) has their own student government, the Associated Students of MSU or ASMSU.  This local quasi-government group has some real power over the 50,000 plus students attending that university, and can greatly influence the local city governments and faculty with their actions.

The Michigan State University student government passed two resolutions, 55-23 and 55-24, on Dec. 6 calling on state and local government to allow both non-citizens and 17-year-olds to vote.

 

The first bill sought to extend voting rights to noncitizens, which are stated to be a significant portion of the student body (12.68%).  It resolved that the ASMSU will advocate for the state of Michigan to allow for municipalities to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, that they will work with the government of East Lansing to promote the voice and views of non-citizens in East Lansing, and that they will advocate that East Lansing opens up local elections to non-citizens when the necessary changes are made in the state’s election law.


That law section (MCL 168.492) requires that a voter must be a citizen of the US, and at least 17.5 years of age, and won't likely change with a state legislature controlled by Republicans in both houses.  Remarkably, the first bill passed unopposed.

The second bill advocates to lower the age for voter eligibility from 18 to 17. The original recommendation was 16, but that changed with concerns at the December 6th meeting over the right of 16-year-olds to vote.  “It couldn’t be done,” the mayor of East Lansing, Mark Meadows, had told student representative Maysa Sitar in a previous conversation regarding the bill, nevertheless the ASMSU committee passed the bill. 

MSU student, Solomon Alvi noted “Voting rights to noncitizens is something I can agree with...America is best if it becomes...pro-global.”  Hannah Sullivan, an astrophysics student, further said, “it’s good...for non-citizens to have a say in the matter.”  Read more here in the Morning Watch, a conservative alternative media source at MSU.  

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I've always contended that out of town students should not be allowed to vote on local issues, only State and Federal concerns. That is one of the reasons towns like E. Lansing and Lansing are becoming so left leaning. A perfect example is Lansing's efforts to become a sanctuary city. This current stupidity being advocated by MSU students is a perfect example and the fact that they are being brainwashed with Marxist ideology by the University is yet another reason not to cave to these radical immature students. What scares me is that these students will be the future leaders who embrace the ideas of leftists and believe that the World is being destroyed by Climate Change and Capitalism. Khrushchev, the former leader of the Soviet Union, stated years ago that America will fall from within. 

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