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I was wondering what percentage of those would of been eligible to vote in the referendum originally. As some insight, 971885 of that total are located in the
by Zenst 8y ago
I was wondering what percentage of those would of been eligible to vote in the referendum originally. As some insight, 971885 of that total are located in the UK and the rest from other countries. Now that does not clarify if they qualify to vote in the referendum or not, but does somewhat raise that aspect of people who have no say in a country, interfering in its democracy.
After all, these are just names of people, sure they may check against an election role register and that does somewhat depend upon no ID-fraud, of which the site offers no protection against whatsoever.
Well worth looking at how this progresses via the data available :- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584.json
- pushpop 8y agoI believe people who have a permanent residency outside of the UK but held British citizenship were allowed to vote in the referendum. However I'm not suggesting that all those anomalous votes in that petition are ex-pats.
- Zenst 8y agoYou are correct about voting eligibility and expats and I equally share your stance upon that. We just don't know and given the checks (lack of) involved, may never know. Had we had a national ID card, such systems might take on more credibility, alas such ID cards in the UK are often disdained by a vast majority for various reasons of self-privacy. Yet such ID cards are most common throughout Europe. Indeed, some countries (Brussels iirc as one) have a law that makes not voting in an election a crime, so they get close to 100% turnout, they also have ID cards.