Right of foreigners to vote of other supranational groupings of countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty imposed reciprocity inside the European Union concerning voting rights in local elections; this already existed for the European elections. In several European states, the public debate on the right of foreigners to vote was therefore renewed, as some foreign residents had the right to vote (European foreign residents) while others, non-Europeans, did not. As a result of this debate, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia and Belgium extended the right to vote, in different manners, to all foreign residents (which was already the case in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Netherlands). The European Parliament,
Give Your Vote Give Your Vote Give Your Vote is a project by the campaigning group Egality that allows people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Ghana to participate in the 2010 UK general election. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 2010 as a campaign for democracy in a world that is increasingly interconnected. Prominent backers include Archbishop Desmond Tutu and actor Keith Allen. Egality is collecting questions to UK candidates from people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Ghana. These questions are put before UK political parties by volunteers in the UK. Egality also plans to have SMS hubs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and