“My concern here is that if this goes to the ballot, the voters won’t really know what they are voting for, because we don’t really know either.”

— Councilwoman Traci Park

(from the August 12, 2026 Daily Signal article “Is Los Angeles Seeing Sense on Noncitizen Voting?”)

The Los Angeles City Council has reversed course on a ballot measure that would have asked voters in the nation’s second-largest city to decide whether noncitizens may vote in city and school board elections. However, this news isn’t as simple as it might seem.

The motion’s author, Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez, said that he authored the motion for noncitizen voting because groups that represent illegal aliens asked him to do so, but then he had second thoughts when his own black constituents pushed back.

Soto-Martinez said that he hasn’t had a change of heart, but that “more work needed to be done before the issue is presented to voters.” Translation: He thinks he just has a PR problem.

Read the entire article here.