Exept Germany, France, Austria and Italy.

How so? That's not what I've read.

I found different infos about voting rights for foreigners from this website (http://www.agarp.de/cms/index.php?It...tent&task=view) and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_o...igners_to_vote).

As usual, there's a difference between EU national and non-europeans.

Ah, at the community level. I can see how that might benefit the community. But this is a national initiative and not quite the same thing. I don't think any countries allow non-citizen voting at this level. Of course, anyone can vote on X Factor.

Nothing wrong with that.

Anyway, this thread is directed at people who can't vote in Switzerland, but who might want to have their voices heard in other ways, so all this is just a bit academic.

I don't vote anyway. Not even for the X-Factor.

The United Kingdom does for certain nationalities.

Well, the UK is part of a Commonwealth. Where there is a pact between certain countries, that could make sense for some issues at certain levels. If an EU citizen was living as a foreinger in an EU country, they should be able to vote on EU level referendums. Of course, Switzerland avoids all such pacts that threaten its sovereignty.

On a National level, there are constitutional problems with allowing non-citizens to vote.

True, but there are countries that do allow it, which is my point.

I feel revolted by the posters.
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