Huh. So in NL, they mail everyone who’s eligible to vote a ticket to show at the door.
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@0xabad1dea Is this specifically something for the city you're living in? Wondering if my American partner is going to get something too
@codecat it probably varies by city and how long you’ve lived there yeah
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@spacehobo well funny thing about that, the accident of my birth is that I *was* born here… it confuses everyone terribly
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Huh. So in NL, they mail everyone who’s eligible to vote a ticket to show at the door. My husband got one and I assumed I obviously wouldn’t get one because I’m not yet a citizen.
But I did get one! For the “neighborhood commission.” Just how low-stakes is it, that they invited the American?
Same in the EU afaik. Made it interesting when I first volunteered as an election worker and we had 5 elections at once. Some of them local, some not.
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Huh. So in NL, they mail everyone who’s eligible to vote a ticket to show at the door. My husband got one and I assumed I obviously wouldn’t get one because I’m not yet a citizen.
But I did get one! For the “neighborhood commission.” Just how low-stakes is it, that they invited the American?
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange enjoy your vote
I've received a ballot for " de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen" -
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Huh. So in NL, they mail everyone who’s eligible to vote a ticket to show at the door. My husband got one and I assumed I obviously wouldn’t get one because I’m not yet a citizen.
But I did get one! For the “neighborhood commission.” Just how low-stakes is it, that they invited the American?
@0xabad1dea For local elections, you don't have to citizen, just resident. National elections are a different story.
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@spacehobo @0xabad1dea The rules for who can vote in the UK are not completely trivial and depend on nationality and your circumstances and what type of election it is. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/who-can-vote-uk-elections (Not included in that page or the one it links to appear to be the rules for members of the House of Lords - perhaps the web page author assumed that they'd know the rules that applied to them.)
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Huh. So in NL, they mail everyone who’s eligible to vote a ticket to show at the door. My husband got one and I assumed I obviously wouldn’t get one because I’m not yet a citizen.
But I did get one! For the “neighborhood commission.” Just how low-stakes is it, that they invited the American?
@0xabad1dea Yep, you can vote in municipal elections if you've lived in the country for more than 5 years. And you can also vote for the waterboard as soon as you become resident in NL. I encourage everyone who can to do it as it's one of the few ways we non-citizens can get representation
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@spacehobo @0xabad1dea yeah, it seems pretty self-evident when you see it that residents should be able to influence their conditions
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@0xabad1dea Is this specifically something for the city you're living in? Wondering if my American partner is going to get something too
@codecat @0xabad1dea I actually think this is an EU wide thing? Not 100% sure but definitely in the whole country.
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@spacehobo well funny thing about that, the accident of my birth is that I *was* born here… it confuses everyone terribly
@0xabad1dea @spacehobo hahaha yeah I imagine. Most of us know absolutely nothing about our own residency and citizenship laws. Plenty of citizens think you can become a citizen simply by marrying a citizen, for example.
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@halcy I’m imagining discovering Bad Neighbor is running for election to block fiber optic for the entire city district
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