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As of 2020 a total of 141countries grant expatriates the right to vote in elections in their countries of origin.[1] There is considerable variation across countries in regard to voter eligibility, voting modalities, i.e. voting in person at diplomatic missions or other physical locations, by mail or online, which elections nonresident citizens may vote in, i.e. elections of the national legislature, executive elections, referendums, or sub-national elections, and how nonresident citizen voters are represented. The number of countries enfranchising nonresident citizens accelerated significantly in the 1990s. Social scientists have advanced a number of claims about the causes and consequences of this development and debated its normative implications or pros and cons of nonresident citizen voting.
Variations: Voter Eligibility, Voting Modalities, Types of Elections, and Forms of Representation[edit]
Some countries (such as France) grant their expatriate citizens unlimited voting rights, identical to those of citizens living in their home country.[2] Other countries allow expatriate citizens to vote only for a certain number of years after leaving the country, after which they are no longer eligible to vote (e.g. 25 years for Germany, except if you can show that you are still affected by the political decisions in Germany). Other countries reserve the right vote solely to citizens living in that country, thereby stripping expatriate citizens of their voting rights once they leave their home country (such as Ireland, with extremely limited exceptions).
There is similar variation in how non-resident citizens can exercise their right to vote. Most commonly, non-resident voters have to cast their ballots at an embassy or consulate of their country. Some countries are even more restrictive, such as Timor-Leste which "limited in-person voting to only its Australian and Portugese missions in 2017."[3]
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- ^ Wellman, Elizabeth Iams; Allen, Nathan W.; Nyblade, Benjamin (2023). "The Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset (1950-2020)". Comparative Political Studies. 56 (6): 910 – via Sage Publications.
- ^ Arrighi, Jean-Thomas (accessed 28 May 2024). "Access to Electoral Rights: France". cadmus: European University Institute Research Repository. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
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