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All citizens resident outside the State who were previously registered to vote in the State; Citizens resident outside the State who were born on the island of Ireland; or; All citizens on the island and all citizens resident outside the island of Ireland who were born on the island or who have lived on the island for at least one year.
[1] [2] [3] An exception is in elections to the Seanad (upper house) for which graduates voting in the university constituencies (National University of Ireland and Dublin University) may be nonresident. [1] [4] A government bill introduced in 2019 proposed allowing non-resident citizens to vote in presidential elections. [5]
Residents of the state who are Irish citizens or British citizens may vote in elections to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament). Residents who are citizens of any EU state may vote in European Parliament elections, while any resident, regardless of citizenship, may vote in local elections. [1]
Resident UK citizens may vote in Dáil elections but not presidential elections. A proposed constitutional amendment would give non-resident citizens a vote in presidential elections. Elections are conducted by means of the instant-runoff voting, which is the single-winner analogue of the single transferable vote used in other Irish elections.
The Brennan Center for Justice conducted a study of voting in the 2016 general election, finding 30 incidents of non-citizens voting out of 23.5 million votes cast in 42 jurisdictions across the ...
Voters across Ireland cast their ballots in the country’s general election on 29 November and, ... instead seeing their vote share drop 4.1 per cent and losing all but one of their 12 seats ...
Non-resident citizen voting is citizens voting in elections according to their citizenship while not residing in the country of the election. As of 2020 a total of 141 countries grant non-residents such as emigrants or expatriates the right to non-resident citizen voting. [ 1 ]
May 23—WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed Congressman August Pfluger's legislation by a bipartisan vote of 262-143 to block noncitizens from voting in ...