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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I know you think that, you’ve said it like seven times without being able to or just refusing to explain why you think it’s a good place to draw the line. Remember, the conversation started because an emigrant to the US decided Calgary city council (that’s in Canada) even exploring the idea that people who actually live here could vote here should have been laughed out of the room, despite the idea working in other healthy democracies across the world.
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Whether it's good policy or not for people with PR to have a vote ultimately has nothing to do with the original question you're so doggedly ensuring gets discussed. The reason it's dumb for council to debate/vote on this issue is that isn't up to them.
They have limited council time and we have plenty of local issues they could spend it on where they have actual power. (Housing, policing, etc)
So whether New Zealand allowed non-citizens to vote has about as much to do with it as what the council votes. Neither get to decide.