A federal lawsuit challenging a statute in Washington, D.C., that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections has been thrown out, with the judge ruling that the plaintiffs did not prove the law harmed them. 

In her ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that the seven D.C. voters who argued that allowing noncitizens to cast ballots in local but not federal races served to dilute citizens’ votes, reported The Washington Post.

The judge also said that plaintiffs did not prove that the law in question, the D.C. Noncitizen Voting Act, passed by council members in 2022, led to them being denied opportunities or treated unfairly. 

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