Voting rights in UK after 15 years
#31
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
I too have always received the voting papers in time to submit them. I have also always received an email and letter reminding me when I need to renew my application to vote around 3 months before registration runs out. It may well depend on region one is registered I'm registered with Northumberland and never had any issues.
#32
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
You've all been lucky then! Neither the referendum papers or those for all the subsequent elections turned up in time! Now, the returning officer for our constituency has always been most helpful (but keeps urging us to vote by proxy, which we can't) and emails us as soon as papers are posted.
#33
Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
No one living in a foreign country should get voting rights in another country where they will not be to experience the outcome of their votes.
#34
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I have bank accounts, investments & pensions in the USA and bank accounts and property in Spain - doesn't give me voting rights in either as I live in the UK.
No one living in a foreign country should get voting rights in another country where they will not be to experience the outcome of their votes.
No one living in a foreign country should get voting rights in another country where they will not be to experience the outcome of their votes.
#35
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
Ok, got it.
That puts my mind at rest.
Last edited by Mark604; Jan 22nd 2024 at 8:58 am.
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
It may be that you have been unlucky. Although I have only had a few problems re mail in Spain every now and again something seems to get stuck every now and again when it hits Spain.. of course it may be in your case it was simply sent late. I can only refer to my own dealings with my voting authority . For the Brexit referendum I wasn't resident in Spain when that vote was done so voted normally in UK for that one.
#38
Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
I recently phoned DWP about my upcoming pension. I had the papers from then and from health team within a few days - excellent service.
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Neither my husband nor I have had problems with ballot papers reaching us in time to be returned in the past, though, before we reached the 15.year cut off point. I haven't decided yet whether I will re-register as an overseas voter. I have been a Labour voter but am not at all inspired by Keir Starmer who does not seem willing to right any of the wrongs perpetrated during 14 years of Tory Government.
#40
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Government departments use some daft system whereby mail all goes by one EU country (used to be Malta, don't know if that has changed) before being sent on to its destination. It supposedly saves money but yes, I too have been told by both HMRC and DWP that mail could take weeks to reach me.
Neither my husband nor I have had problems with ballot papers reaching us in time to be returned in the past, though, before we reached the 15.year cut off point. I haven't decided yet whether I will re-register as an overseas voter. I have been a Labour voter but am not at all inspired by Keir Starmer who does not seem willing to right any of the wrongs perpetrated during 14 years of Tory Government.
Neither my husband nor I have had problems with ballot papers reaching us in time to be returned in the past, though, before we reached the 15.year cut off point. I haven't decided yet whether I will re-register as an overseas voter. I have been a Labour voter but am not at all inspired by Keir Starmer who does not seem willing to right any of the wrongs perpetrated during 14 years of Tory Government.
#41
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
Some government mail from the UK that I get mainly to do with government pensions comes via Jersey?
#42
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
Government policy affects citizenship so citizens abroad should be able to vote.
Last edited by DLC; Jan 23rd 2024 at 3:37 am.
#43
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
Er, we're all walking round with a residency card for third country citizens which is a direct result of UK government policy and many of us couldn't vote to change that? As outcomes go, it's not the greatest.
Government policy affects citizenship so citizens abroad should be able to vote.
Government policy affects citizenship so citizens abroad should be able to vote.
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Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
Today I received 2 letters from HMRC re recent communication I have had with them . They took 14 days from being posted in the UK to get to me. Both had come via the Netherlands.
#45
Re: Voting rights in UK after 15 years
Vote Jason Coghlan as MP for the Costa del Sol
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