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sunflower68 | 07:56 Mon 30th Oct 2006 | Law
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Can a US citizen, married for 10 years to a UK citizen and living here, working and paying taxes throughout all of this time, vote in this country's elections?
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well everyone has to be on the electoral roll, so if you are not allowed to vote, why do they fine you for not being on the electorasl roll. being on the roll means you get sent a voting card at election time.
Im Canadian and Im allowed to vote, I would assume that you can vote too.
http://talk.uk-yankee.com/


try this site sunflower it answers a lotta questions doe Americans living in the UK.
If you contact your local council they should be able to tell you,
http://www.islington.gov.uk/Council/Political/ VotingAndElections/nationalities.asp
No he/she cannot vote and cannot be on the electoral roll. It would be an offence to register.

To register you must have British, Irish, EU or Commonwealth citizenship.

AFAIK the USA left the Commonwealth (then known as the Empire) some 230 years ago.

S/he could apply for naturalisation which would give those rights.
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No dot not everyone has to be on the electoral roll.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Gtgl1/GuideToGovernme nt/Parliament/ParliamentArticles/fs/en?CONTENT _ID=4003194&chk=c5Pqow
If this were the case surely my husband would thus be able to vote. I always fill his name on the card but it never comes back to me in the printed version.
Also he has never been fined for not being on the electoral roll, he is a US citizen.

I just wondered if anyone had any new news on this situation. dzug you are right as far as I know , nwtrikette do you mind me asking how you are able to vote. I wonder if you are from BC??
Thanks also for the useful postings Blyss and froggequene

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