The Middletown NY "Times Herald Record," alocal newspaper, has a story about the number of Hispanics who would like to vote but cannot because they are not citizens. One might get the impression from the article that this is an injustice. I had always presumed that one had to be a citizen in order to vote and it never dawned on me that this requirement might be considered unjustly discriminatory. Thoughts?

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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