@EdwinG "my" works. "our" implies that either you and I have the same (we don't) or that the whole world has the same (definitely not). Naming the country is probably the best option here.

@EdwinG So, this has nothing to do with changing countries.

@EdwinG Still, I'm curious about what country made you lose your voting rights without stripping you of your citizenship.

@EdwinG "our" You're doing some defaultism from wherever you are now?

@evan

@EdwinG Well, you're not in most cases.

@evan

@EdwinG So, you're basically saying that I and many other people should lose their rights to vote?
To lose my most basic right as a citizen because I happen to not live on a piece of soil, but on another one?

Quite a strange way to see democracy, indeed. (see where my "landowner" reference is coming from)

@evan

@EdwinG
I do understand the question, it's your example with A and B that didn't make much sense (The situation in country B is irrelevant to the question).

You do understand that people with multiple nationalities are a special case, right?

The question is about emigrants. If you have dual citizenship you're not an emigrant or an immigrant.

@evan

@gabriele Wow, that's quite a gross generalization. So all emigrants ("expat" is also quite a gross term) are the same? What's next? All women are the same? All black people are the same?

@evan

@EdwinG
And yet, you did mention taxes. Something that would never cross my mind when talking about voting.

Also, you've never lived in another country, have you?

Who are you to impose your political preference? You are a citizen of your own country, just like every other citizen of your own country "impose" their political preference when it's election time.

(and sorry, I don't understand your countries A and B example, it's not about country A and B, it's about country A only)

@evan

@evan From some answers, I see a lot of people have the good old landowner (male and white too?) mentality when it comes to voting rights. You would expect people on the Fediverse to understand what democracy and citizenship are a little better.

@alisonw @evan Because voting is either a right or a duty, not a privilege. Because citizenship is a thing.

@fdrc_ff @evan Yes, some people are. They're making me angry right now.

@EdwinG @evan That's such an Anglo thing to associate taxes and voting rights. Very "democratic" idea. So people who are too poor to pay taxes, shouldn't have the right to vote either? Only landowners like in the good olden days? Probably white and male too, right?

@mpjgregoire @evan @stinerman It's a good idea in theory, but in practice it's a bit silly. My representative represents Russia, most of Asia and Oceania. Three regions that have little in common. Our previous representative was a Putin-controlled asshole. A current one is a business woman from HK or Singapore, I even forget. Neither is "representative" of anything.

@evan Who on Earth doesn't vote "Yes" ?
People who don't understand what citizenship is, I presume.