New York state’s top court has put an end to New York City’s effort to empower noncitizens to vote in municipal elections ...

ALBANY — A New York City law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections violates the state constitution, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals agreed in its decision with ...

After a legal battle spanning more than three years, New York’s top court on Thursday struck down a city law as unconstitutional that would’ve expanded the right to vote in local ...

Council Member Robert Holden praised a March 20 decision by the New York State Court of Appeals striking down New York City's ...

Even an Empire State court says noncitizens don’t get the franchise.

New York became the first big city in the country to grant rights to some noncitizens to vote for Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, Borough President and City Council Member.

New York City’s plan to let noncitizen residents vote in local elections is dead, struck down by the state’s highest court in a ruling issued Thursday morning. The state Court of Appeals issued its ...

The lower court struck down the law on summary judgment ... and eight states passed measures banning noncitizen voting. New York City isn't the first governmental body that has passed such a law, with ...

called the Court of Appeals. “Efforts by radical Democrats on the New York City Council to permit noncitizen voting have been rightly rejected,” NYGOP Chair Ed Cox said in a statement.

“Efforts by radical Democrats on the New York City Council to permit noncitizen voting have been rightly rejected,” NYGOP ...

The law had previously been blocked by a lower court from ... times,” she wrote. New York would have been the largest jurisdiction in the country to allow noncitizen voting.