Category Archives: No Voting Rights Time Limit

Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Registration

Posted on June 25, 2012 by right2vote4xpatbrits

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 →

Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Benefits of Internet Voting, Electoral Commission, Electoral Reform & Overseas Voter Reg., French Expat Voters, French Inspire 1 million Overseas Voters, French Internet Voting, French Overseas Voting Statistics, IER for Overseas Voters., Improving Overseas Reg/voting Rates, Military Covenant, No Voting Rights Time Limit, Overseas Voter Turnout:UKvsUS, Overseas Voters & IER Bill, Re-Connecting with British Voters | Leave a comment

Overseas Voter Turnout: UK vs USA

Posted on June 13, 2012 by right2vote4xpatbrits

For the more insular British politicians who think that they have little to learn from France where overseas voting rights are concerned, some 1 million (40%) out of 2.5 million French overseas citizens have registered to vote , compared with 30,000 … Continue reading →

Posted in +5 million British Expats Abroad, Electoral Commission, Expat Voter Registration, French Inspire 1 million Overseas Voters, Neglected overseas voters, No Voting Rights Time Limit, Overseas Voter Turnout:UKvsUS, Re-Connecting with British Voters, Representation encourages overseas voters | 1 Comment

Most Countries Operate a System of IER but not the UK!

Posted on May 21, 2012 by right2vote4xpatbrits

Most democratic countries today operate a system of Individual Electoral Registration (IER) rather than the Household Electoral Registration (HER) still employed in the UK (see lines 7 – 8, page 3 of the article by Toby S James on “Introducing … Continue reading →

Posted in Electoral Commission, Harry Shindler, IER for Overseas Voters., Lack of Government respect, Most Countries Operate IER, No Voting Rights Time Limit, Re-Connecting with British Voters, Voting Rights, Younger Generation Voters | Leave a comment

British Expats Out-Voted by French Counterparts.

Posted on May 9, 2012 by right2vote4xpatbrits

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 | Leave a comment

The Votes for Expat Brits Campaign

Posted on May 9, 2012 by right2vote4xpatbrits

Erin writing in her EasyExpat.com blog on 4th May, has provided a good overview of our on-going campaign to remove the 15-year-limit on the rights of British overseas citizens to vote in UK national elections. http://easyexpat.blogexpat.com/blog/2012/05/04/the-votes-for-expat-brits-campaign

Posted in EasyExpat Overview, Electoral Commission, European Court of Human Rights, Harry Shindler, Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote, James Preston Case, Lord Lexden-Overseas Voter Discrimination, No Voting Rights Time Limit, Re-Connecting with British Voters, Voting Rights | 1 Comment

No Time Limit on Expat Voting Rights!

Posted on May 3, 2012 by right2vote4xpatbrits

We think that there should be no time limit set on the rights of British expatriates to vote from abroad. Since the mid-1980s when voting rights were first extended to British expats but only initially for up to 5 years non-resident in the … Continue reading →

Posted in European Court of Human Rights, Harry Shindler, Harry Shindler's Human Right to Vote, In Defence of the ECHR, Military Covenant, No Voting Rights Time Limit, Voting Rights | 1 Comment