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Old Feb 11th 2012, 8:57 am
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French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
Edouard Courtial, the junior minister for French living abroad, told journalists on Friday that French expatriates would be able to choose their 11 MPs by Internet during June’s two-round parliamentary vote.
The estimated one million French citizens living abroad were previously only allowed to vote in presidential elections but this year they will have 11 deputies representing their interests in parliament, also a first.

Imagine if the thirty million displaced Europeans in Europe (living in another European country than their own) actually had representation in Brussels. Perhaps that nice Mr Cameron would follow the French (non?).
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Old Feb 12th 2012, 11:25 am
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Here's the story:
French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
Edouard Courtial, the junior minister for French living abroad, told journalists on Friday that French expatriates would be able to choose their 11 MPs by Internet during June’s two-round parliamentary vote.
The estimated one million French citizens living abroad were previously only allowed to vote in presidential elections but this year they will have 11 deputies representing their interests in parliament, also a first.

Imagine if the thirty million displaced Europeans in Europe (living in another European country than their own) actually had representation in Brussels. Perhaps that nice Mr Cameron would follow the French (non?).
Maybe Scotland could adopt this for all the ex-pat Scots living in England instead of trying to lower the voting age to gerrymander the result of the referendum.
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Old Feb 12th 2012, 11:57 am
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rebuild Hadrian's wall I say!
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rebuild Hadrian's wall I say!
I'm in agreement, Mr's Fred comes from North of the Wall
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Old Feb 12th 2012, 2:19 pm
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And there was I, thinking someone was going to include me in this democracy milarky.

Let the Scottish have to show their passports every time they want to come south of the border!

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Originally Posted by MikeJ
Maybe Scotland could adopt this for all the ex-pat Scots living in England instead of trying to lower the voting age to gerrymander the result of the referendum.
Maybe Scotland should ask them all to return north of the border to make their vote in person
Then we could put up the barriers.

They will eventually realise they are better off down South, in more ways than just the weather.............
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