By Guest Contributor Fatoumata Waggeh* My mother exercised her right to vote in 2009, exactly twenty years after immigrating from The Gambia to the Bronx, New York. It would take my father an additional five years to vote – a privilege he so eagerly awaited given his love for politics and inherent belief in American democracy, […]

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扩大“等待中的美国人”的特许经营权：非公民的市政投票权

作者：特邀撰稿人 Fatoumata Waggeh* 我母亲在 2009 年行使了她的投票权，正好是在从冈比亚移民到纽约布朗克斯二十年后。我父亲还需要五年时间才能投票——鉴于他对政治的热爱和对美国民主的内在信念，他急切期待的特权，[...]