Display:
a declaration that you are not registered to vote in another member state for the European elections.

So Hungarian legislation is not the only one assuming similar election rules in other countries.

(In this case: not all countries require registration from citizens, some maintain you on voter lists by default. So, if I had gained residence in France, I could fill out this form, vote in France; then fla to Budapest in the certain knowledge that French authorities have not informed their Hungarian counterparts and thus I am still on the voter rolls there too, and vote a second time...)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 08:04:53 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Yes, if you are prepared to lie on an official declaration form...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 09:04:18 AM EST
[ Parent ]
? No lie included.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 11:32:48 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Yes, since the French form makes you sign a declaration that you are not registered for the EP elections in another MS.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 11:35:30 AM EST
[ Parent ]
There are two possibilities.

A) The Hungarian citizen X in France, like myself, sees a difference between "being registered" and "being listed" -- and signs the declaration in good faith that s/he is indeed not registered anywhere but in France.

B) Assuming that being registered and listed means the same, the Hungarian citizen X faces an impossible hurdle: to delete him/her from their lists, the Hungarian authorities wait for a confirmation from their French colleagues that X signed a declaration about voting there; while the declaration French authorities want him to sign is that he was already removed from the lists in Hungary...

Or, C), the rules are improperly defined in both of our sources.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 12:39:14 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Well, this is becoming a bit of a PN, but I don't distinguish, in what I've written, between "register", "list", "roll". It's a list of persons entitled to vote.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 12:24:44 PM EST
[ Parent ]
In that case, B applies.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 at 01:10:56 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I think it's an EU rule for the European elections. The same rule doesn't appear to exist for municipal.

This is still not a reason for separate registration on separate registers.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 09:16:39 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Spain also doesn't require voter registration, but draws an electoral census from the list of people registered as residents with each municipality.  Voter rolls are published for a short period ahead of each election for people to check and submit amendments if necessary.

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 12:47:55 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:
Login
. Make a new account
. Reset password
Occasional Series