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Should non-citizens be allowed to vote.
In today's globalizing world many countries have non citizens in their major cities. This portion of the population mostly consists of members of the country's labor force. It is these people however who are also suffering due to low incomes and other challenges that arise from living in a new country. Political leaders trying to get elected attempt to base their campaigns which are meant to help this target group. Unfortunately most of these people are not citizens and therefore they can't vote for them. This leads to the politicians who address the citizens of the nation to winning the election. As a result the non citizens don't get the help they need. Without help, these non citizens find it very difficult to reach their goals and settling down with comfort. The concept of having non citizens voting in municipal elections isn’t a foreign idea. However there is a lot of opposition which is very reasonable. Non citizens should not be granted the right to vote in municipal elections because it could decrease the number of non citizens seeking citizenship, makes the election more expensive than it already is and increases the administrative process to identify a way to select who can vote, and is unfair for current citizens of the nation who earned their citizenship and proved they want to be active citizens.
For a non citizen to become eligible to vote they must first become a citizen of the nation. The requirements vary by nation but usually there are two requirements that are standard. First they must live for a certain period of time in that country and write a test which would test their knowledge on the country. This could be a lengthy process but ensures only those who have shown their commitment to become citizens actually get their citizenship. In most developed countries and some developing countries it is the non citizens that are suffering because the political leaders don't always have their best interests. The leaders who want to help can't

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