Talk:Right of foreigners to vote

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[edit] Overlinking

This article seems to be pretty severely overlinked. See WP:CONTEXT. -- Boracay Bill 23:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Terminology

Note the following from the Citizenship page: "In most nations, a non-citzen is a non-national and called either a foreigner or an alien. In the United States, because there is state citizenship, foreign is the legal term for someone not a citizen of the state, and alien is reserved for someone not a citizen of the United States. Thus New York insurance companies are foreign in New Jersey, while a Dutch insurer is alien." -- Boracay Bill 23:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Typos, rewrite, etc.

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Other countries (e.g. members of the European Union), have granted voting rights to non-citizens who hold citizenship a country which is a fellow menber of the a supernatural organization. Supernatural? is that supposed to be subnational? that last sentance of that paragraph is awful. 207.69.174.7 18:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Hahaha. That's one of my all-too-frequent typos which slipped by my lousy proofreading. I meant supranational, describing the European Union, not supernatural. I made several typos in that edit, now corrected. I must have been a real rush. Yes, the final sentence in the paragraph is a mess -- the article needs a rewrite. I don't have the time to spend on doing a first-cut rewrite right now. -- Boracay Bill 01:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello everyone. I have added an entry about Colombia and also created sub-sections, dividing the article by country. Hop eyou like it! Jealonso 01:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC) Jealonso

[edit] Italy

Italy isn't listed. I thought the Italian parliament had a seat for Italian's living overseas. Perhaps this isn't exactly foreigners voting. ? 203.206.71.132 15:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

An article Voting rights of nonresident nationals would indeed be welcome. --Pylambert (talk) 14:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sources?

This article is unclear and not referenced. As a Commonwealth citizen living in Australia, I can definitely NOT vote in UK elections. I was a tempoprary resident of the UK and I'm pretty sure that as I couldn't then either. So what is the UK section talking about? 203.206.71.132 15:44, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm... see Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom#Eligibility. Too bad that page does not cite supporting sources for the assertions made there. -- Boracay Bill!

[edit] Rewrite

I have rewritten this article. I didn't start out intending to do a rewrite -- my initial objective was to add sufficient source citations to justify removal of the {{unreferenced}} tag. As I added cites, though, I also added information. Eventually, the added information overwhelmed the info previously present. At some point, I reorganized the country list into EU and non-EU sections, each ordered alphabetically. Most of the info previously present in the article is still present, though it has been rearranged. In a couple of cases I found no citeable source supporting assertions already present in the article, and I marked those cases with {{fact}}s. I think my changes have improved the article. Hopefully, others will agree. Please correct as needed any errors I've made and not noticed. -- Boracay Bill 05:52, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] title

I'm not a native English speaker, but "Right of foreigners to vote" looks to me (French native speaker) like a litteral translation of the title of the French wikipedia article "Droit de vote des étrangers", which is the original base for this article. The other articles on related topics are Suffrage (to which Suffrage today, Sufferage, Limited suffrage, Census Suffrage, Voting rights, Voting right, Right to vote, The right to vote, Equal voting, Voter eligibility, Political franchise, Enfranchisement, Enfranchise, Electoral franchise are redirected), but also Voting rights in the United States, District of Columbia voting rights, Women's suffrage, Universal suffrage, but Maori voting rights in Australia, Voting rights of Australian Aboriginals, Voting rights in Puerto Rico, Compulsory voting, Voting rights in the United States...
Shouldn't it be renamed Voting rights of non-nationals (noncitizens is equivocal, as in some countries citien is not synonymous with national), or something like that ? A template like on the French wikipedia Modèle:Droit de vote would probably be useful too. --Pylambert (talk) 15:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)