Translation of "Wahlteilnahme" in English

A total of 29 parties participated in the election.

The right to vote is a fundamental right of the citizen expressing his or her participation in society.

Nothing in the directive prohibits double voting.

With our participation in the election we want to direct attention to the topic.

Parties and other political associations have to meet the same conditions in order to participate in elections.

Youwill automatically lose your vote in your home country if you vote inthe new country.

Enable internally displaced people and refugees to participate in the elections even if their ability to return to Kosovo is curtailed.

Take steps to adopt consistent and permanent electoral legislation, which regulates issues such as voters’ lists, out-of-country voting and campaign financing in a transparent manner.

Thus, all current and former political prisoners, about 500,000 Buddhist monks, and more than twice as many members of ethnic minority groups living close to the borders were banned from the vote.

Many Palestinian citizens of Israel, disgusted by the large-scale casualties inflicted on their brethren – and believing that to vote would mean to endorse the political system responsible for the carnage – stayed home once again.

Enable internally displaced persons and refugees to participate in the elections even if their ability to return to Kosovo is limited.

Civic duty is the most frequently given reason for voting in all the Member States where voting is not compulsory and in Greece, where voting is compulsory.

But voting in Belgium is compulsory, so once you have started there is no jumping ship without a fine or a good excuse.

I suppose that I belong to an expat generation that has not been educated to consider voting an essential right, if not a duty, and I regret that.

But where Neuchatel could serve as a model is in its hands-on attitude to helping foreigners fit in by making it easy for people to learn the local language, opening the voting booths to all, and encouraging foreigners to represent their country’s communities.

It is only logical that Evo does not resign himself to suspend the elections or deprive a considerable number of Bolivians from their right to vote by virtue of a challenge to an electoral register whose quality has been approved by international agencies as one of the best in Latin America.

A large majority of non-voters (59 percent) do not rule out participation in elections per se and can still be approached and mobilized.

An Iraqi man who lost a leg in a car bombing last year made sure he was there to vote on January the 30th.

The ECtHR recognised that restricting participation in elections to persons capable of assessing the consequences of their decisions is a legitimate aim that can generally justify exclusions from voting rights (cf. ECtHR, Alajos Kiss v. Hungary, Judgment of 20 May 2010, No. 38832/06, § 38).

Legislative and local elections have been neither fair (partisan administration, unfair electoral laws, gerrymandering, non-transparent methods of counting votes, unequal treatment of parties, pressure on parties, candidates, and voters) nor free (limited freedom of expression and association, restrictions on running for election, on access to the voting booths, and on challenging the resulting violations).

We have seen that after its participation in the 1921 elections the Fascists formed a parliamentary group, but this did not prevent an agrarian party forming independently of the Fascists.

The same holds true for the EU elections and all other elections: The focus of all efforts to motivate more people to participate in elections again should be on the awareness of the social dimension of non-voting.