President Donald J. Trump: All U.S. States Should Go to Paper Ballots, Same-Day in-Person Voting, Voter ID

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[–]neomarxist_bullshit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah I can understand that, but to me it's just weird... if you don't actually reside in the country and pay taxes, I think you shouldn't be able to affect elections which have zero consequence for you.

The reason why this bothers me is that a lot of the voters abroad who vote in elections in my country are usually more liberal leaning, likely because they are happy because of liberal policies elsewhere, but get to vote for liberal politicians in my country which I find undesirable. (Their vote can't change anything for these citizens abroad but has real impact on us who actually live in the country)

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Yes, I can see how this can be disconcerting, to import values held in other countries, and could argue that someone living in China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Brazil, the Philippines, Singapore, India or Myanmar might love the authoritarian leadership in those countries, and would want to vote for an authoritarian system in the US. But as we say, you can take the American out of the US flag colored panties, but you cannot take the US flag colored panties out of the American.