Comments on: ECHR press release – English version

By: Christopher Chantrey

Christopher Chantrey — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:49:57 +0000

If you are British and deprived of your voting rights because you have lived abroad for more than fifteen years, read about what we are doing to get the law changed at http://www.votes-for-expat-brits.com – including cases pending before the high Court in London and the European Court of Human Rights.

By: marika mifsud

marika mifsud — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:23:50 +0000

What would the Inspector do if he lived in the UK?

I think there is more security when there are elections for a president of the local band club here in Malta then there were in the UK general elections.

No Perspex and counters having to show every vote. It all seemed so casual and easy going. The Inspector would have nightmares realising how easy it seemed to manipulate the votes.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:25:37 +0000

It is common sense though. I live in France, and cannot vote in this country’s presidential election, as I am not a French citizen. If I cannot vote in Malta (postal vote, send me a plane, etc etc), then I am being denied a human right. (I gotta vote for someone or something right?)

I may not live in Malta anymore, but I am a Maltese citizen. It matters to me who governs Malta. Take the whole EU issue a few years back. Even though I was not living in Malta, it made a huge difference to me whether Malta is part of the EU or not.

By: TROY

TROY — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:27:55 +0000

I think overseas voters should be allowed to cast their votes in the country they live in, but I’m afraid this would cause a serious problem to our Spettore Gadget, Anglu Farrugia.

Just imagine what his excuse would be should overseas voting be allowed and the Nationalists win the election! He’s got trouble enough finding the ‘voti mixtrijin’ as it is, imagine if he had to investigate vote laundering overseas.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:50:35 +0000

Does this actually affect us? It seems to me they’re saying that the convention on human rights does not require you to secure the right for expatriates to vote, but that the Greek constitution paves the way for the Greek parliament to legislate for expatriate voting and the Greek parliament is guilty of not having done so, hence in breach of their own constitution.

Does OUR constitution pave the way for anything of the sort?