Should citizens of your country that live elsewhere have the right to vote?

@mpjgregoire @evan @stinerman I was having a discussion about this recently: I agree it's a better model. Though if the UK implemented the French style system there's a downside for my stress insofar as there'd genuinely be a solid chance I'd end up running for whichever seat contained Austria...

@alisonw @evan Because that country still gets to govern my life?

Voting isn't a privilege, it's the right of the governed to have a say in their governance. Britain (in my case) has not stopped having a huge impact on my life just because I'm not living there. Governance isn't just taxes - it's things like the bilateral agreements that underpin the basis for my work and home, and it's the fact that because I'm not a citizen elsewhere the UK is always the country I'd have to return to.

@JubalBarca @evan

so you should be able to declare your home where you last lived in your origin country and get to vote there only imo.

@the_moep I think the wording was "expatriate citizens".