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by foldr 3158 days ago
I'm not an expert on Spanish law. (Are you?). I don't know whether merely voting is illegal or not at the level of individual people. But the issue seems largely moot, as it wouldn't be feasible to prosecute individual people for voting.
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>I'm not an expert on Spanish law. (Are you?).

No, I'm not. I've made an effort to read and understand the relevant law to the best of my ability. If someone knows more I'd welcome any further information.

>I don't know whether merely voting is illegal or not at the level of individual people.

My understanding is that the constitution simply invalidates the referendum, and I'm certain it doesn't explicitly criminalize it.

Keep in mind that even Madrid has not been pushing any claims that simply voting would be illegal.

>But the issue seems largely moot, as it wouldn't be feasible to prosecute individual people for voting.

It does, yeah. But above I was responding to a commenter describing the voters as criminals, which is an unfortunately common view.