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Can an American citizen lose their citizenship by voting in a foreign election?

April 26, 2017American Citizen Citizenship foreign Immigration Law Legal lose voting

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Can an American citizen lose their citizenship by voting in a foreign election?

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Neither US nor Canadian citizenship law says anything about losing citizenship as a result of voting in an election in another country. Note that US law used to mandate loss of US citizenship for voting in a foreign election. However, this provision was struck down by the Supreme Court in Afroyim v. Rusk and was repealed by Congress in 1978.