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> allow everyone living in the city to vote Who is "everyone" in this case?
by petcat 10mo ago
> allow everyone living in the city to vote
Who is "everyone" in this case?
- systemtest 10mo agoPeople who live in the city for the majority of their time. They should be able to vote. Regardless of their housing situation. In basically all of Europe, voting for local elections is tied to having stable housing.
- ishouldstayaway 10mo agoI don't disagree with you per se, but how would that work in practice? How could you actually tell someone lives there if they don't have an address to back up that claim?
- systemtest 10mo agoBy allowing them to register as citizens of that city
- ishouldstayaway 9mo agoThis just pushes the problem back a step, and both has and produces all the same problems as the issue it purports to solve.
- gedy 10mo agoMy guess is non-citizens or 'undocumented immigrants'.
- systemtest 10mo agoThose as well. But even citizens and immigrants with paperwork can often not vote for local elections if they do not have stable housing.
- trinix912 10mo agoYes, because they don’t legally permanently live in that place. Sorry not sorry. Why do you think anyone can just sign up for some local elections and vote for a town they’re not even legally permanently situated in??
- systemtest 10mo agoThen change the fucking system so that people who have been living in a city for years can legally do so. Or kick them out. But don't have this vague system of sub-humans that are not allowed to influence their surroundings by voting.