Bite-size walking tours of Sarlat-la-Canéda New 45-minute lunchtime walking tours are being offered around the historic town of Sarlat on the last Thursday of each month. >> Page 3
Dordogne March 2015 - Issue #21
Online registration to vote in UK Elections
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The Electoral Commission has launched a campaign to encourage more British expats to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming UK General Election. Anyone living outside of the UK for less than 15 years can register online to vote in May's parliamentary elections.
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General Election where people can register to vote online and it is hoped that the new online process will encourage more UK nationals living overseas to register to take part in the Election. To register as an overseas voter, you must have previously been registered in a UK constituency within the last fifteen years. If you were too young when you left the UK to have been registered then you can still register as an overseas voter if your parents (or guardians) were registered in the UK within the last fifteen years. “A lot of people aren’t aware that it’s possible to register as an overseas voter for the Gen-
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n 7th May, millions of people across the UK will head to the polls for the General Election, but a great many British expats living abroad will not vote – even though many have the right to do so. On 5th February, the UK Electoral Commission launched an overseas voter registration campaign which aims to encourage British citizens living overseas to register to vote. The Commission’s goal is to boost the number of expats on the UK’s electoral registers – of the 5.5 million British currently living abroad, there are only 20,000 registered to vote. This is the first UK
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