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I now understand the purpose of some funny-looking questions that are asked in the US consulate during visa application. Like, "Have you voted in the United States in violation of any law or regulation?".
Before the "referendum" in Crimea that question looked very weird to me, since it is sort of obvious that US citizens do not apply for visa and non-US citizens can not vote .
However, yesterday russian journalist Katya Sergackova shed light on the purpose of the question. Katya is a citizen of Russia, but lives in Simferopol, in Ukraine. Yesterday she took her russian passport and her ukrainian temporary residence permit and made her way into the local voting station. There, she approached a person in charge of "referendum". The following conversation took place.
Katya presented her russian passport and asked:
- Can I please vote? I am a citizen of Russia, but I lived here for a couple of years.
- Sure, sweetie! - the person in charge replied. - If you live here, you can vote even if you are a martian!
Then that person took out a paper and copied Katya's address and passport contents into that paper. Katya noticed, that the paper contained details of at least five other russian citizens, who took part in the democratic process of a foreign country before her.
Then, Katya received her ballot and voted.
http://www.5.ua/ukrajina/politika/item/373450-zhurnalistka-z-rosiiskym-pasportom-proholosuvala-na-referendumi
Before the "referendum" in Crimea that question looked very weird to me, since it is sort of obvious that US citizens do not apply for visa and non-US citizens can not vote .
However, yesterday russian journalist Katya Sergackova shed light on the purpose of the question. Katya is a citizen of Russia, but lives in Simferopol, in Ukraine. Yesterday she took her russian passport and her ukrainian temporary residence permit and made her way into the local voting station. There, she approached a person in charge of "referendum". The following conversation took place.
Katya presented her russian passport and asked:
- Can I please vote? I am a citizen of Russia, but I lived here for a couple of years.
- Sure, sweetie! - the person in charge replied. - If you live here, you can vote even if you are a martian!
Then that person took out a paper and copied Katya's address and passport contents into that paper. Katya noticed, that the paper contained details of at least five other russian citizens, who took part in the democratic process of a foreign country before her.
Then, Katya received her ballot and voted.
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