I’m about to tackle bureaucracy and become – hopefully – a French citizen so I can vote in the next Presidential elections. Wish me luck!
Fraussie
April 27th, 2012 at 10:05 am
Good luck! though as I explained in Battling with the French Administration, applying for French citizenship actually turned out to be very easy.It always takes a year though. It’s going to make your like much easier!
Bonny
April 27th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Fraussie, thanks for the interesting details of French voting procedures. Is this procedure for ordinary elections as well as presidential elections? As we go to local government elections tomorrow in QLD, it will be a little less involved – front up to the person behind the table, give your name – no ID, just your address, they find you in the electoral roll and cross you out. You receive the ballot paper, fill it out and place in the ballot box. I wonder how long it will be before we will need ID and signatures when voting!
Fraussie
April 27th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
This is, indeed, the normal voting procedure in France, regardless of whether it’s for presidential or other elections. I love the way it works in Australia! Australia remains one of the few countries that still don’t have a national ID card. Here, you can be asked for it under all sorts of circumstances and you must always carry it on you. It took me years to remember!
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I’m about to tackle bureaucracy and become – hopefully – a French citizen so I can vote in the next Presidential elections. Wish me luck!
Good luck! though as I explained in Battling with the French Administration, applying for French citizenship actually turned out to be very easy.It always takes a year though. It’s going to make your like much easier!
Fraussie, thanks for the interesting details of French voting procedures. Is this procedure for ordinary elections as well as presidential elections? As we go to local government elections tomorrow in QLD, it will be a little less involved – front up to the person behind the table, give your name – no ID, just your address, they find you in the electoral roll and cross you out. You receive the ballot paper, fill it out and place in the ballot box. I wonder how long it will be before we will need ID and signatures when voting!
This is, indeed, the normal voting procedure in France, regardless of whether it’s for presidential or other elections. I love the way it works in Australia! Australia remains one of the few countries that still don’t have a national ID card. Here, you can be asked for it under all sorts of circumstances and you must always carry it on you. It took me years to remember!
[…] January, which is the cut-off date for the place in which you vote for the coming year. Last time, we voted in Paris. Our polling station is n° 408 which we learnt from our new voting cards which we only received […]
[…] first time I voted in the French presidential elections in 2007, there were no primaries. In 2012, the main parties held their own primaries but it was an internal vote and you had to be a party […]