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I 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 suggesti
by pushpop 8y ago
I 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.