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EU Citizen Voting Rights (UPDATE) | 107 comments (107 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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The UK requires people to re-register every year. Usually in October local councils will send a form to every home with a voter roll for the address, which must be returned including any changes from the previous year.

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 10:18:53 AM EST
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Yes, as In Wales describes. But it's the authorities that push. In France you have to go in and register and before 31/12 if you want to vote in an election the following year. OTOH, you don't have to renew annually.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 11:34:15 AM EST
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What happens if a snap election is called? Can voters caught wrong-footed appeal to be included in the voter rolls?

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 12:49:12 PM EST
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Not as far as I know - but there are elections in a year more often than not, and snap elections are quite rare.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 02:47:02 PM EST
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So if you move to another city, as I did last summer, you have to re-register on the rolls at your new city of residence, and you'll be registered, for the following year on.

Should a snap election be caught in the fall (extremely rare; we French tend to do that in the spring; must be something in the water), I'd still be able to vote, but in my former place of residence.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 04:52:27 PM EST
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Have you lived in another EU member state, Bernard?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jun 11th, 2009 at 04:54:33 PM EST
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Only in Germany, but this was in the 70s and I was still a kid, so no voting for me.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sun Jun 14th, 2009 at 05:06:30 PM EST
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