So what happens if (a purely technical question) a small municpality, say
Rolling hills in Los Angeles, has ONLY foreign (non-US citien) landowners?
Unlikely, but highly possible if, unlike in some countries, foreigners can
buy land.
Could a group of foreign landowners secede from a municipality to form their
own, given that they can't vote themselves (presumably you'ld need to be a
voter to petition for that... or would you?
BW

>From: David Mark <dmark@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] dual citizens
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:02:48 -0400 (EDT)
>
>In the US, even a resident land-owner like me gets no say in local
>elections if not a US Citizen. Canada changed to that system back in the
>1970s. In the 1960s and before, citizens of British COMMONWEALTH countries
>could vote in local elections if not Canadian citizens, but not in
>National elections. That was changed in the 1970s and my British
>Grandparents lost their rights to vote in local elections.
>
>David
>
>On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Brendan Whyte wrote:
>
> > >This is true not only for Baarle but for the whole EU since some years.
> > >Anybody having a passport of one EU member state may vote in the
> > >muncipal elections of the town he's *living* in the EU.
> >
> > What about if you don't live there but you own a house there? Surely a
> > non-resident landowner gets a say in the municipality that charges him
> > rates?
> >
> > Also, how many of the EU countries allow dual nationality?
> >
> > BW
> >
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