Wait, Boris Johnson was born in the US?

maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera though I don't know whether he voted in the US when he was already president of Ireland

I wonder if he is the first Head of State of a foreign country who is also a US Citizen and actively participates in voting here.

Does Putin count?

Btw BoJo wasn't head of state, that's the monarch.

There was the recent prime minister of Latvia, who is still American afaik, but he probably didn’t vote.

Not sure the last part is that ironic, since he most likely believes in the separation of church and state.

I can imagine that being a bureaucratic nightmare.

"It says here your name is Leo, but there's no surname...?"

The pope is not unique in taking up a new name when taking office. Monks and nuns also get a new name when joining a monastic order and it's not a unique Christian tradition either. Buddhist monks also take up new names. In both cases they don't usually change their legal name so in official documents they will still show up as their original pre-monastic names. I assume this is the case for the Pope too, he is called Leo but I bet on his documents he is still Robert Francis Prevost.

Practically, sure.

But I imagine it's a "do not concern yourself with earthly affairs" thing, which is why it's noteworthy he's still voting at all.

This is pretty huge, even tho he's not saying it's against trump, he's been (relatively speaking) very vocal about American politics.

He should have basically became a new person when acsending to the papacy.

All property, inheritance, family name, prior loyalties, citizenships, everything wiped away. Focus only on leading the church and nothing else.

Changing legal names for a country you don't live in and should no longer put above any others is kind of a moot point. But again, why it's such a big deal he's publicly voting.

JFK almost didn't get elected because people on both sides of the aisle were afraid of this.

20% of America is Catholic, and at least half of them will just blindly do what the pope rolls down thru the church. The other half might need some convincing or at least handwaving, but theyve been primed to follow orders their whole lives.

In two years if the Pope says "Vote D", that's 67 million Catholics who are both likely to listen, and likely to not be voting D in the first place.

I don't think it'll come to that, but the way things are going it's possible .

This is the first American Pope in history. Prior to Leo, the concept of the Pope voting in an American election would be preposterous. But he's from Illinois, so he gets to vote.

The world has been so ridiculous lately, it's been harder for The Onion. They have to get more extreme to match the current news. People forget that they used to do more simple, silly headlines, like this.

I mean, he has lung cancer and recently underwent surgery. At his age, being on two feet after that is a win. Edit: he’s only 71, maybe I overstated it a bit.

Yeah he is a big White Sex fan.

You probably are mistaken, but I choose to believe that you aren't 😉

I'm sorry mate, it's a baseball team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox?wprov=sfla1

Citizens living abroad can vote, generally by mail and at the last U.S. location where they were registered

Not being a resident doesn't stop the USA to collect tax, so why would he not be allowed to vote? I get some difference between state and federal level but I don't think one should exclude the other in this case.

Why is he allowed to vote?

Becau$e? 🤷🏻

Probably the only foreign head of state allowed to vote huh

If you pay taxes in both places, why wouldn't it be right to be able to vote?

Why not? If they are citiziens they have the same rights as everyone else.

Literally 1 person....

Actually yeah, this raises a good question. I’m gonna go look stuff up instead of jumping to answers though.

At least for now, Illinois has no problem with him voting, so I’m gonna find out why.

Probably a lot more refugees left the US in recent years.

Also, please don't post unverified slop here as if it's facts

It depends on your view i guess.

If i think "state X and state Y are differents therefore they have different interests". I get you

If i think "this person grew there, he had friends, family, lived here. And he still does and he may want to keep the place that is the little nice peaceful place in this troubled world. So he is a citizen, he may vote" i go to the opposite view sorta.

Plus, you can always complexify such a debate. Do imaginary lines make you a stranger? Recent history showed us that the state could have different interests than the betterment of the peoples, even when telling otherwise. Plus you can always argue that such a debate does not matter. The "who can vote" argument is a way to choose a tyrant that will favor us, as no one should have the right on another one. Therefore other options like the mandate imperative and revocable, direct democracy, anarchy( no unjust hierarchy) could be better to allow anyone to live a life as freely, happily and respectfully as possible.