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   R Scott Jones (rscottjones@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 22:53:52 JST R Scott Jones

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan As someone who is about to gain citizenship in two additional countries, I had never considered voting in multiple countries, as a citizen of those countries, simultaneously. If you’re a citizen of only one country, strong yes for me. Not sure what it means to be a dual citizen yet though (should I really have 3x the voting power of someone else?), so only a qualified yes for me, for now, while I ponder.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 22:53:51 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @rscottjones You have 3 times the responsibilities, too. Voting is a privilege and an obligation of citizenship. What's the context of gaining two more passports, if you don't mind my asking?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 02:11:50 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @rscottjones That's cool. My father and grandfather were Greek citizens, and I've been considering getting a Greek passport. It'd be nice to have that connection to our ancestral country, even if we don't live there.

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     R Scott Jones (rscottjones@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 02:11:51 JST R Scott Jones

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan True. Context is my dad was born in Belfast and immigrated to USA at age 18. He ended up naturalizing while in the Marines. As part of that process, he seemingly “gave up” his UK citizenship. But there doesn’t appear to be a UK law that allows for that. So I derived UK citizenship upon birth, we just didn’t know it (or so is our understanding, we haven’t filed paperwork yet). Because he was born on the isle of Ireland, I can derive Irish citizenship too.