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Category Archives: French Expat Voters
Debate on Low Electoral Registration Rates of British Citizens Abroad.
This link to the Hansard record of the House of Lords debate on 26th November, 2014 concerns the question of the low electoral registration rates of British citizens living overseas. Some selected extracts to quickly illustrate the flavour of the debate … Continue reading
Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Electoral Commission, Electoral Registration Debate 26/11/14, Expat Voters Difficult to Target, French Expat Voters, Harry Shindler vs UK, Improving Expat Voter turnout, Improving Overseas Reg/voting Rates, Voting Rights
Tagged 15-year-rule, Harry Shindler, Low voter Turnout, national voting rights, voter registration
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Differing Interpretations of Expatriate Democracy in France and UK
We are grateful for the supporting article below in the April, 2013 edition of The Connexion, English language newspaper in France. Through interviews with French MPs representing French expatriates, the article compares and contrasts the differing interpretations of democracy in France and the UK … Continue reading
Posted in Electoral Commission, Expat Democracy: France vs UK, French Expat Voters, French Inspire 1 million Overseas Voters, French Internet Voting, French Overseas Voting Statistics, Lord Lexden: All-Party Inquiry, Lord Lexden: Reasons to Remove 15 yr Limit, UK vs French Parliament 2012, Voting Rights
Tagged British expatriates, Democratic accountability, EU Referendum, national voting rights, politics
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15-Year-Rule Unnecessary Complication of Tax Law
The incompatibility of the 15-year-limit with interpretation of tax law, underlies the British government’s rather ambiguous position on overseas voting rights i.e. that the right to vote is not necessarily related to paying taxes in the UK (although many British … Continue reading
Posted in 6-11 Million Unable to Vote, Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg., French Expat Voters, IER for Overseas Voters., Improving Overseas Reg/voting Rates, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, Tax Law Complication
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Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Registration
Below is an update on Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown’s progress in Parliament on 19th June and the important Clause 3 which seeks to remove the 15 year time limit on British overseas voters, to be debated 27th June, 2012. Highlighting the major difficulties with the … Continue reading
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Case for Improving Overseas Registration & Voting Procedures.
France’s recent presidential and legislative elections provide some interesting insights to overseas voting practices. Despite over 1 million registered French overseas voters compared with 30,000 for their British counterparts, only some 3600 French citizens voted by post (the only option … Continue reading
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Benefits of Overseas Voting via Internet.
Surely we British overseas citizens and the British government could also benefit from the convenience, cost savings and higher turnout impact of internet voting, as demonstrated by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in their world map showing the percentage … Continue reading
French Inspire 1 Million Overseas Citizens to Vote
How can the French authorities inspire and organise 1 million of their overseas citizens to vote in national elections but not the British with their own? Old soldier Harry Shindler does not need inspiring – just the right to vote! … Continue reading
UK vs French Parliament 2012
454,901 expatriate French have voted worldwide for their President and soon for deputies to their Assembly in Paris – <see left << The red is where François Hollande was supported (46.93%). Blue – Sarkozy (53.05%) And if this had been … Continue reading
Posted in Electoral Commission, Expat pensioners' rights, French Expat Voters, French Internet Voting, French Overseas Voting Statistics, Global British Representation, Harry Shindler, Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote, Military Covenant, Neglected overseas voters, UK vs French Parliament 2012, Voting Rights
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British Expats Out-Voted by French Counterparts.
The link below shows that over 40% of French overseas citizens voted out of more than one million registered in the recent French Presidential Elections of 2012. The UK then compares very badly with only some 30,000 British overseas citizens registered to … Continue reading
Posted in Anomaly of Voteless Expat Brits in EU, Copenhagen Voting Recommendations, Electoral Commission, Expat Voter Registration, French Expat Voters, French Overseas Voting Statistics, Global British Representation, Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote, James Preston Case, Lack of Government respect, No Voting Rights Time Limit, Overseas Voter Profile, Representation encourages overseas voters, Specific Expat MPs?, Voting Rights
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Every Vote Counts (even after 15 years overseas)
EVERY VOTE COUNTS Sunday 22nd April, 2012 Hello Sky News, You aptly reported all day on the 400,000 thousand French citizens living in the UK for whom 30 polling stations were open to cast their votes in the French Presidential … Continue reading
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