richmx2
Dec 26, 2011, 1:14 PM
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... it might even be worth voting.
... after decades of promises dating back to François Mitterrand, France wants to position itself as a model of expat rights, giving the 2.5 million French people abroad their own MPs for the first time. French officials have sliced the world into 11 constituencies, which will next year give France far-flung politicians including an MP for the US and Canada and an MP for north and east Africa. With the second biggest diplomatic network of embassies and consulates in the world after the US, France now joins a small group of European countries, including Italy, which allows its diaspora to choose its own expat MPs.
(France to offer expat specific MPs)
As it is now, there is absolutely no reason for me to vote in the U.S. I have no real interest in the local politics of the place I last lived (where I would have to register absentee) and, with the electoral college system voting anything but "R" for President in Texas is a wasted vote anyway. Not to mention my my old county had a habit of "misplacing" absentee ballots. It would be nice, though, to have a representative in the House, at least.
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