Sadly it's only UK residents who qualify for that petition. It particularly irks me that my passport - my main form of identification, accepted even on NATO bases run by the US Navy - would immediately become a 'lesser' form of ID because it doesn't have all of the biometric data that the new ID cards would carry.
I wonder if they intend to have all ex-pats report to their local embassy/consulate to get their cards? It would cost a ludicrous amount of money and, in a number of places, would have serious security problems.
That's a bit annoying. You could always use your parents' address, I suppose? It's "an address where you're known" and I assume you're registered to vote somewhere in the UK, quite possibly there?
The ex-pat voting stuff is strange. I'm currently registered in Aberdeen, because that was my last known address in the UK. I would like to change it to Liverpool (not that it'll make any difference as both are seats in which Labour could put forward a dead donkey and it would win) but I'm still trying to work out how to do that. The system doesn't seem to allow for a contact address outside your previous constituency.
As it was, I didn't get to vote this time because the postal service is so awful I still haven't received my ballot paper. Hopefully I'll be back in the UK in time for the next one, although I'll probably have to use the proxy system for local elections and, should it ever happen, the EU referendum.
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Date: 2005-05-20 11:53 am (UTC)I wonder if they intend to have all ex-pats report to their local embassy/consulate to get their cards? It would cost a ludicrous amount of money and, in a number of places, would have serious security problems.
Are you registered to vote?
Date: 2005-05-20 11:59 am (UTC)I've never looked into ex-pat voting procedures.
Re: Are you registered to vote?
Date: 2005-05-20 12:06 pm (UTC)As it was, I didn't get to vote this time because the postal service is so awful I still haven't received my ballot paper. Hopefully I'll be back in the UK in time for the next one, although I'll probably have to use the proxy system for local elections and, should it ever happen, the EU referendum.
Re: Are you registered to vote?
Date: 2005-05-20 12:09 pm (UTC)