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by icebraining 4074 days ago
Many states allow you to vote from abroad if your parents and/or legal guardians are eligible: http://www.fvap.gov/citizen-voter/reside
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Interesting, this could add another layer of craziness on top of gerrymandering to nonproportional winner takes all repentation. Somebody seems to have had a bright moment when requiring that "parents and/or legal guardians" condition..

Back on topic, I generally feel a little uneasy with the question of the migrant vote. Denying the vote to emigrants? Not good. Denying the vote to immigrants? Not good. Migrants (with inherently less commitment to a single state) effectively getting more votes per capita than non-migrants? Not good either! This is certainly just a highly abstract problem that probably deserves quotes ("problem"), but it should not be completely ignored in a world of ever-increasing international mobility.