Restricting the right to vote by mail to citizens without residence in Hungary constitutes unfounded negative discrimination, says the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. Hungary's Constitutional Court issued this unacceptable decision two years after the parliamentary elections of 2014. The court stated there was nothing discriminatory about allowing citizens having residence in Hungary to vote only in person while their fellow citizens, some of whom may have never been to Hungary and have no residence there, may cast their votes in parliamentary elections by mail.
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Discriminatory Voting Judgment in Hungary
Restricting the right to vote by mail to citizens without residence in Hungary constitutes unfounded negative discrimination, says the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. Hungary's Constitutional Court issued this...
by Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
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