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The Irish diaspora is large and the question of voting rights for emigrants and other expatriates has arisen continually since the 1980s. The Oireachtas committee on the constitution considered the matter in 2002; it recommended no extension of the franchise, but that among the senators nominated by the Taoiseach should be "a person or persons ...
[1] [2] [3] An exception is in elections to the Seanad (upper house) for which graduates voting in the university constituencies (National University of Ireland and Dublin University) may be nonresident. [1] [4] A government bill introduced in 2019 proposed allowing non-resident citizens to vote in presidential elections. [5]
The legal scholar Ruth Rubio Marin is more critical of proposals to extend voting rights to non-resident citizens. [12] She argues that "[a]bsentee voting is an option that, under certain circumstances, sending countries may legitimately embrace; it is not a right that diasporic national communities can simply assert" (page 145).
The Brennan Center for Justice conducted a study of voting in the 2016 general election, finding 30 incidents of non-citizens voting out of 23.5 million votes cast in 42 jurisdictions across the ...
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While both Irish and British citizens resident in the state may vote in Dáil elections, only Irish citizens, who must be at least eighteen years of age, may vote in the election of the President. The presidency is open to all citizens of the state who are at least 35. A candidate must be nominated by one of the following:
New York City will soon permit its 800,000 residents who aren't U.S. citizens to cast ballots in local elections. Should other cities follow suit? Should noncitizens be granted voting rights?
Universal suffrage means one person, one vote, so if immigrants don't have either non-resident citizen voting rights or non-citizen suffrage, the ethics and the legitimacy of the democratic process is called into question. [1] Non-citizen suffrage can help non-citizens to export the democratic best-practices to their home country. [1]