Photo: AFPWith the UK general election just six weeks away on June 8th, it’s important to remember to register to vote if you can and want to have your say. Estimates show that there could be as many as 5.5 million UK citizens living abroad but just 263,903 overseas voters appeared on the UK electoral registers as of December 1st, 2016. That number represented a huge leap (144.2 percent) on a year earlier as overseas voters registered to have their say in the EU referendum. Your local Electoral Registration office should have sent you a reminder once your registration expired. Overseas voters can choose to vote either by post or by proxy – where a trusted person is nominated to vote on behalf of another.

Source: The Local April 27, 2017 10:18 UTC