It’s my daughter, and thanks for updating me on the current voting rules.
Agreeing with that, at least mostly. I’d say it’s OK if you have a genuine stake in and connection with both countries/localities. If you own a house in each of two states but are in one of them only two weekends a year, I don’t think you should be voting in that one. If you have dual citizenship but for one of the countries it’s really just a matter that you have a piece of paper saying so but all you know about the place is whatever happens to show up on the local news where you actually live, I don’t think you should be voting in the country you have no real connection with. In either case, if you’re going to, at least genuinely study up on the issues.
Oh thanks, my error. I meant to hit ‘reply’ to Hari Seldon’s OP. I thought there might be something about him we didn’t know.
My wife and I got ballots that had only the offices we were eligible to vote for (Pres, VP, Rep) on it. And had a senate seat been up in IL, that would have been there to. So we voted three times for Obama, the first for senate. No local or state offices were on our ballots. Seems fair. We file US tax returns, but not those of IL.
In all honesty, I’m not that keen on someone being able to vote in places they don’t reside in - I’m not sure why a passport gives you a golden ticket to influence the lives of people in a place you don’t personally inhabit or invest in.
My wife would have gotten an Irish passport if she could (she just missed the cut off) - simply to give her EU citizenship. But she’s never lived there and never will - why should she get to vote?
I’ve felt this ever since Brexit, when there were British nationals, who’d lived elsewhere for decades and had no intention of coming back, voting in favour of Brexit - an action that has zero impact on them but which has affected the people who have to live with the consequences of that decision.
Equally, my SIL hasn’t lived in the UK for over 15 years but still votes here, yet has very limited knowledge of the pressing concerns of the people that actually live here and she won’t personally won’t be affected a jot by which box she ticks.
Here in the US, you have to be a resident to vote. If you’re a resident of Texas you can’t also be a resident of California, so there’s a problem if you’re voting in two separate local elections.