Looking at Western countries that are importing voters and have explicitly stated that's the plan to maintain or gain political power. # United Kingdom ## Who Can Vote in UK Elections? [Who can vote in UK elections? - House of Commons Library](https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8985/) ![center](https://i.postimg.cc/LXDB9Bdd/BDE-Capture-24.png) [PDF Link](https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8985/CBP-8985.pdf) ## Commonwealth Voters UK allows "Commonwealth" immigrants and refugees to vote in British elections regardless of citizenship status. <u>Paracleric</u> — L - ran back to the office. So The Commonwealth, China, United States and EU are WEF surrogates? That's a Hell of a find. Is it possible to trace the rise of the WEF through The Commonwealth? ### Commonwealth Gaining "Right to Vote" <p style="font-size:125%"><b> <font color="#d7e3bc">Key Takeaway:</font> <font color="#ffffff"> "The Commonwealth" was extended full voting rights if in the UK on February 8th, 1983 with the enactment of the Representation of the People Act of 1983. </font></b></p> > The Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It changed the British electoral process in the following ways: > > Amended the Representation of the People Act 1969. > Stated that a convicted person cannot vote at any parliamentary or local election whilst in prison. > Laid down the appeals process in local elections > The Act also regulates how political parties and people acting on their behalf are to behave before and during an election.[^1] Legislation: [Representation of the People Act 1983](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2) > [!info|no-icon flex bg-c-gray]- Qualifying Commonwealth Countries <br> > \- **See: [UK Electoral Commission Rules](https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/who-can-vote)** > > The definition of a 'Commonwealth' citizen includes citizens of British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories. A 'qualifying' Commonwealth citizen is someone who has leave to enter or remain in the UK, or who doesn't require that leave.[^2] > > <p style="font-size:125%"><b>Commonwealth countries</b></p> > > - Antigua and Barbuda > - Australia > - The Bahamas > - Bangladesh > - Barbados > - Belize > - Botswana > - Brunei Darussalam > - Cameroon > - Canada > - Cyprus > - Dominica > - Fiji Islands > - Gabon > - Ghana > - Grenada > - Guyana > - India > - Jamaica > - Kenya > - Kingdom of Eswatini > - Kiribati > - Lesotho > - Malawi > - Malaysia > - Maldives > - Malta > - Mauritius > - Mozambique > - Namibia > - Nauru > - New Zealand > - Nigeria > - Pakistan > - Papua New Guinea > - Rwanda > - St Kitts & Nevis > - St Lucia > - St Vincent & The Grenadines > - Samoa > - Seychelles > - Sierra Leone > - Singapore > - Solomon Islands > - South Africa > - Sri Lanka > - The Gambia > - Togo > - Tonga > - Trinidad and Tobago > - Tuvalu > - Uganda > - United Republic of Tanzania > - Vanuatu > - Zambia > - Zimbabwe > > <p style="font-size:125%"><b>British Crown Dependencies</b></p> > > - The Channel Islands > - (including Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Herm and the other inhabited Channel Islands) > - Isle of Man > > <p style="font-size:125%"><b>British Overseas Territories</b></p> > > - Anguilla > - Bermuda > - British Antarctic Territory > - British Indian Ocean Territory > - British Virgin Islands > - Cayman Islands > - Falkland Islands > - Gibraltar > - Monserrat > - Pitcairn Island > - St Helena and dependencies > - (Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha) > - South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands > - Sovereign base areas on Cyprus > - Turks and Caicos Islands > > <p style="font-size:125%"><b>Hong Kong</b></p> > > Former residents of Hong Kong who hold a British Overseas Territories, British Nationals (Overseas) or British Overseas passport qualify for registration. # What is The Commonwealth Exactly? ![center](https://i.postimg.cc/g2Jgj0mX/BDE-Capture-24.png) --- ### Article Resources #### ==Reuters== — [UK election gives hope to first time immigrant voters](https://archive.ph/W01iO) > Voting for the first time in a British election, Prathesh Panjak and other immigrant voters are excited to take part in the July 4 ballot, ==hoping they can influence change in the country that they have chosen to call home==. > > The opposition Labour Party is widely expected to win by a landslide, replacing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party which has been in power for 14 years. > > ==Refugees and immigrants from Commonwealth countries==, mainly former territories of the British Empire such as Nigeria, India, and Malaysia, ==are eligible to vote in British elections.== > > Panjak, 27, who came to Britain in February last year, said he was excited to cast his vote after missing the election in his native India. > > =="In my country, they don't allow people from other countries to vote … I came here on a student visa, but they are giving us an opportunity, like British citizens," said Panjak who works part-time as an ambassador at his university in Manchester, northwest England.== > > Teh Wen Sun, a 33-year-old Malaysian student from Salford, not far from Manchester, said she did not see much difference between the two main parties, but ==she was keen to vote for a party that is more receptive to immigrants.== > > Immigration is an electoral battleground in Britain, with ==Sunak promising to cut net migration levels if the Conservatives win==, amid concern from many British voters that it was too high and put excessive pressure on the state-run National Health Service, housing and education. > > Sunak has since tightened visa rules and made international headlines for a policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. > > Oyinkansola Dirisu, 31, a support worker from Manchester who came to Britain in 2022, said she was looking forward to voting for Labour, and said ==she wanted whoever won power to make it easier for people like her to move to Britain==. > > Others, like Esther Offem, 26, who came from Nigeria last September, are still undecided: "None (of the parties) have done much in the areas that I'm most interested in. But at the moment, I would probably go for the Conservatives … I'm not sure yet." ### DOI Papers **Bloom, Tendayi** — *Contradictions in Formal Commonwealth Citizenship Rights in Commonwealth Countries*; December 2011; [Direct Link](https://ia902909.us.archive.org/5/items/contradictions-in-formal-commonwealth-citizenship-rights-in-commonwealth-countries-bloom-2011/Contradictions%20in%20Formal%20Commonwealth%20Citizenship%20Rights%20in%20Commonwealth%20Countries%20-%20Bloom%20-%202011.pdf) <div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 60%;"><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=https://ia902909.us.archive.org/5/items/contradictions-in-formal-commonwealth-citizenship-rights-in-commonwealth-countries-bloom-2011/Contradictions%20in%20Formal%20Commonwealth%20Citizenship%20Rights%20in%20Commonwealth%20Countries%20-%20Bloom%20-%202011.pdf" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> # Canada ## Passing Down Citizenship Abroad **New bill would let Canadians to pass citizenship rights down to children born abroad** — [Archive](https://archive.ph/Z0y4H) ## Immigration Minister Marc Miller [Marc Miller (politician) - Wikiwand](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Marc_Miller_(politician)) # United States To add: Trump saying to give college grads citizenship. ## Importing Voters to the US Center for American Progress — 04-08-2013 — [Immigration Is Changing the Political Landscape in Key States](https://archive.ph/tLDbE) **Authors:** [[Philip Wolgin]], Ann Garcia > Supporting real immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future. %%Footer Starts Here%% --- ![[Brain Icon 1.png|center]] <b><font color="#ffffff"> <center>You might not have noticed it… but your brain did.</center> </font></b> --- ### Tags #Immigration ### Linked Pages & Footnotes [^1]: Overview of Representation of the People Act 1983 pulled from **[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1983)** on [[07-05-2024]]. [^2]: [What is leave to enter for the UK?](https://www.davidsonmorris.com/leave-to-enter) — In basic terms, leave to enter is the permission granted to an individual at the border to enter and remain in the UK, where the individual is neither a British citizen, an Irish citizen, nor has UK right of abode. Under Part 1 of the UK"s Immigration Rules, provision is made for "Leave to enter the United Kingdom" where a person who is neither a British nor Commonwealth citizen with the right of abode, nor a person who is entitled to enter or remain in the UK by virtue of section 3ZA of the Immigration Act 1971 (most Irish citizens), requires leave to enter.