Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: OT: Voting rights abroad Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:42:58 +0100 Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <10p8i8m$1ro00$1@dont-email.me> <10p932h$2147v$2@dont-email.me> <10pa1dv$2d5dl$6@dont-email.me> <10pa6el$2f963$2@dont-email.me> <5PGcnQm5n5eAYiX0nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10pb5r2$2obtv$13@dont-email.me> <4luo8mxm8o.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10pd71s$3grlr$1@dont-email.me> <1rs7tbh.gpe5481mficwpN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10pgt0i$mdso$7@dont-email.me> <6slv8mxh47.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1rs9smu.jbxbeu1db40cvN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <1rsbpkc.vc5k1918vdagaN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10pm41a$2em2o$2@dont-email.me> <1774101640-12588@newsgrouper.org> <10ppvvc$3mqi2$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net DCuT9xDiQMNXP16btcH3OwI1p6bRUnCD5G0VLJ2m6OqsG5rI+H X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:7MBP8RUqVQTwwaMaCUzlh3KaioA= sha256:UM8m7klaK6mhu73bUmj/sJHentJwHn68EgkWEc83qyo= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10ppvvc$3mqi2$3@dont-email.me> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83776 alt.usage.english:1140481 On 2026-03-23 01:02, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2026-03-22, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> On 2026-03-21 18:04, Hibou wrote: >>> Le 21/03/2026 à 14:00, athel.cb@gmail.com a écrit : >>>> >>>> Let us not forget that the British citizens most affected by >>>> Brexit, that is >>>> to say ones who didn't live in the UK, were denied the vote. That >>>> was probably >>>> illegal, but I don't know if it was ever taken to court. >>> >>> >>> It was taken to the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme >>> Court, and it was the courts that ruled it… out of court: >>> >>> 'Expats lose Supreme Court bid for EU referendum vote' - >>> : >>> "The UK's highest court upheld the decisions of both the High Court >>> and Court of Appeal. / UK citizens are not eligible to vote on 23 >>> June if they have lived outside the UK for more than 15 years." >>> >>> 'British expats lose legal battle for right to vote in EU referendum' - >>> >> legal-battle-right-to-vote-eu-referendum> : >>> "'Electoral registration officers currently retain records of >>> previous electoral registers for a period of 15 years. They have no >>> straightforward means of checking the previous residence status of >>> British citizens who have been resident overseas for longer than 15 >>> years.'" >> >> AFAIK, Spanish citizens living abroad can vote, as long as they hold a >> Spanish passport. > > Portugal is also not bad on that department, except that in some > elections you can't vote by post (voting in person is great if you're > close to a consulate, not so great if you're hundreds of kilometres > away), and that in legislative elections "Europe" and "Rest of World, > and Macau" elect just two seats each, which really isn't much > proportional to the number of registered voters... (as for > *representation*, these voters are represented by all 230 deputies, as > are all other voters, de jure) In Spain you can always vote by email. But after some modification of the regulation many expats were effectively excluded from voting. I think that has been corrected. I don't know about referendums, though, as we had so few that I do not remember them. The constitution (1978), the NATO (1986), the EU constitution (2005). I had to ask chatgpt about them. Ah, yes, it says that expats did vote (depends on the country where they live, too). -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;