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    German Greens demand voting rights for foreigners and more money for integration

    Just to clarify and compare: In the United States, the established principles are that you are are a citizen if you were either born in the United States (including US territories) or if at least one of your parents is a U.S. citizen. Dual citizenship has never been forbidden, and has been...
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    German Greens demand voting rights for foreigners and more money for integration

    Whether or not one agrees with the current policy, you can't deny that it's extremely relevant. There is already an established principle that some legal residents are permitted to vote in local elections, which is very, very different from out of the blue saying that non-citizens should get to...
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    German Greens demand voting rights for foreigners and more money for integration

    Also, as an important point of context: Germany already permits foreigners to vote in local elections, as long as they are EU nationals. So when this bill discusses "non-national" voting rights, they're not talking about letting non-Germans vote, they're talking about expanding the *already...
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    German Greens demand voting rights for foreigners and more money for integration

    No, someone who is a citizen of a country is by definition *not* a foreigner.
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    German Greens demand voting rights for foreigners and more money for integration

    Hold on now. It's a pretty heavy spin to claim that allowing dual citizenship means "voting rights for foreigners", and the claim that it would allow non-citizens to vote is complete speculation -- the proposed law does no such thing, but the article claims that it "might" do so with future...
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