19 states historically let some noncitizens vote in federal elections

States with big populations and small ones all had laws before 1900 that allowed some noncitizens to vote in federal elections. All of these laws were revoked by the time World War I began.

Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-NDSource: Gerald L. Neuman, "We Are the People." Alien Suffrage in German and American Perspective, 13 Mich. J. Int'l L. 259, 292-300 (1992); Virginia Harper-Ho, Noncitizen Voting Rights: The History, the Law, and Current Prospects for Change, 18 Law & Inequality 271, 273-75 (2000)Get the dataDownload imageCreated with Datawrapper