From Aztlan electronic news:
Oklahoma Professor Calls for Immigrant Voting Rights
Written by Daniel Maldonado
Friday, 24 November 2006
Oklahoma political science professor, Dr. Bob Darcy, called for the state to revert back to its territorial voting laws and allow all people, who are of voting age, the right to vote.
When Oklahoma was a territory all residents were allowed to vote regardless of citizenship status. “That’s the way it should be now” Darcy said. In a Speech at the Political Science Association’s annual convention, Darcy stated that Oklahoma’s current voting laws disenfranchise a large number of the state’s population. “Across Oklahoma there are large pockets of people who cannot vote because their paperwork isn’t in order. Yet, these same people have jobs, families, homes and are paying taxes here. That’s wrong.” Darcy said he finds the current anti-immigrant rhetoric ironic because the state was developed by an immigrant society. “The state was settled by non-citizens” he added.
Darcy accused Oklahoma law makers of using “illegal aliens” as the latest political weapon [1]…”
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