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Who is eligible to vote at a UK general election?

• 18 or over
  
• be a British citizen, a qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland
  
• not be subject to any legal incapacity to vote
  

• members of the House of Lords (although they can vote at elections to local authorities, devolved legislatures and the European Parliament)
  
• EU citizens resident in the UK (although they can vote at elections to local authorities, devolved legislatures and the European Parliament)
  
• anyone other than British, Irish and qualifying Commonwealth citizens
  
• convicted persons detained in pursuance of their sentences (though remand prisoners, unconvicted prisoners and civil prisoners can vote if they are on the electoral register)
  
• anyone found guilty within the previous five years of corrupt or illegal practices in connection with an election
  

FAQs

Raggamuffin wrote:Why can citizens of the Republic of Ireland or Commonwealth countries vote in a UK election?

sassy wrote:One of those 'obligations' you hate so much because of things that happened before lol

sassy wrote:As normal, Vic is ranting:

Who is eligible to vote at a UK general election?

In England, Scotland or Wales, you can register to vote online at gov.uk/register-to-vote.
In Northern Ireland, visit our Register to vote in Northern Ireland page to download a registration form.To vote in a UK general election a person must be registered to vote and also

• 18 or over
  
• be a British citizen, a qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland
  
• not be subject to any legal incapacity to vote
  Additionally, the following cannot vote in a UK general election:
  
  
• members of the House of Lords (although they can vote at elections to local authorities, devolved legislatures and the European Parliament)
  
• EU citizens resident in the UK (although they can vote at elections to local authorities, devolved legislatures and the European Parliament)
  
• anyone other than British, Irish and qualifying Commonwealth citizens
  
• convicted persons detained in pursuance of their sentences (though remand prisoners, unconvicted prisoners and civil prisoners can vote if they are on the electoral register)
  
• anyone found guilty within the previous five years of corrupt or illegal practices in connection with an election
  

FAQs

Election Day Alcohol Laws Still Ban Booze Sales In Two States
 11/06/2012 12:28 pm ET | Updated Dec 18, 2014  
Looking forward to popping into a bar after work to watch the election results roll in from across the country over a few pints of beer? You'd better not live in Louisville or Charleston -- or anywhere else in Kentucky or South Carolina. Because those are the last two states in the country to have laws banning the sale of alcohol on Election Day on the books.
In Kentucky, the booze ban [url=http://www.wtvq.com/content/localnews/story/Police-Reminder-No-Alcohol-Sales-While-Polls-Are/CbQyoOPrlk694Vnie48W-w.cspx
]only lasts until polls close at 6 p.m.[/url], but it goes all day in South Carolina.
Five other states -- Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Utah and West Virginia -- had similar laws this time four years ago, but have since repealed them. All were artifacts of stricter Prohibition-era blue laws, many of which have been rolled back across the country in recent years. The Election Day laws in particular have been traced back to a desire to combat the 19th century tradition of corrupt political bosses trading votes for free booze -- a practice that seems almost quaint in the era of Citizens United.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/election-day-alcohol-laws_n_2082327.html 

Voting rights have also been considered an issue related to election systems, particularly since passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1972, the US Supreme Court ruled that state legislatures had to redistrict every ten years based on census results; at that point, many had not redistricted for decades, leading to a rural bias in many states. In addition, the Supreme Court required that both houses of all state legislatures had to be based on election districts that were relatively equal in population size, under the "one man, one vote" principle. In other cases, particularly for county or municipal elections, at-large voting has been repeatedly challenged when found to dilute the voting power of significant minorities, and preventing them from electing a candidate of their choice - a violation of the Voting Rights Act. In the early 20th century, numerous cities established small commission forms of government in the belief that "better government" could result from the suppression of ward politics. Commissioners were elected by the majority of voters, excluding candidates who could not afford large campaigns or who appealed to a minority. Generally the solution to such violations has been to adopt single-member districts (SMDs) but alternative election systems, such as limited voting or cumulative voting, have also been used since the late 20th century to correct for dilution of voting power and enable minorities to elect candidates of their choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States 

sassy wrote:So many rules and regulations, all of them different everywhere you go!

Lord Foul wrote:Oh and a proportion of those "recent citizens, and commonweath citizens that labour so conveniently supplied somehow seem to manage two votes per voter.....especially in labour held wards