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A straightforward election law case in New York has effectively ended the ability of non-citizens and undocumented immigrants to vote in municipal elections, according to reports Thursday.

In the final days of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, the City Council passed a law that would have granted municipal voting rights to more than 800,000 newly arrived residents. Neither de Blasio nor his successor, Eric Adams, chose to veto the law, resulting in its automatic enactment in 2022.

Since then, the dispute over non-citizen voting in New York has centered on the state constitution, which explicitly states that only U.S. citizens over the age of 18 may vote and that local governments cannot overrule this requirement. Leading the legal challenge was Joe Borelli, the former Republican minority leader of the New York City Council, who served as a plaintiff in the successful lawsuit.

"We filed some lawsuits that are over-the-top," he told Politico after the state Court of Appeals ruled 6-1 to strike down the law. "This was, from the beginning, a clear and obvious case."