Chavez Miami Foes Hire Planes to Vote in Venezuela Race

[joshcryer]

18. So was I!

The website I linked is about Canadians who no longer reside in Canada after 5 years who are ineligible to vote! It used to be if they visited for some time (to see family or whatnot) they could still vote. But they changed it so that after 5 years of being gone, they lose their voting rights!

That's just bizarre to me coming from a country where if I were to leave I could still vote. There are plenty of expats posting on DU who vote from abroad.

I haven't shifted the bar one iota. My disagreement started with your not thinking people should be able to vote abroad. I think that is wrong even if the majority of countries don't allow it (by my count 100 countries to 96 don't allow it, that was the reason for my statement).

It's not about "practice" it's about what's right, what I believe is right. You already made it clear you think it's right that people have their voting rights removed.