Editing Suffrage (section)

===Residency===
Under certain electoral systems elections are held within subnational jurisdictions, thus preventing persons from voting who would otherwise be eligible on the basis that they do not reside within such a jurisdiction, or because they live in an area that cannot participate. In the United States, license plates in Washington, D.C. read "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION," in reference to the district not holding a seat in either the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] or [[United States Senate|Senate]], however residents can vote in presidential elections based on the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution adopted in 1961. Residents of [[Puerto Rico]] enjoy neither.

Sometimes citizens become ineligible to vote because they are [[Right of expatriates to vote in their country of origin|no longer resident in their country of citizenship]]. For example, Australian citizens who have been outside Australia for more than one and fewer than six years may excuse themselves from the requirement to vote in [[Australian electoral system|Australian elections]] while they remain outside Australia (voting in Australia is compulsory for resident citizens).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/FAQs/Voting_Overseas.htm |title=Australian Electoral Commission, "Voting Overseas – Frequently Asked Questions", 20 November 2007 |publisher=Aec.gov.au |date=10 January 2011 |access-date=21 June 2013}}</ref>
Danish citizens that reside permanently outside Denmark lose their right to vote.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/R0710.aspx?id=162511#Kap1 |title=Lov om valg til Folketinget – Valgret og valgbarhed", 10 April 2014 |access-date=24 October 2015}}</ref>

In some cases, a certain period of residence in a locality may required for the right to vote in that location. For example, in the United Kingdom up to 2001, each 15 February a new electoral register came into effect, based on registration as of the previous 10 October, with the effect of limiting voting to those resident five to seventeen months earlier depending on the timing of the election.