EU citizens voting Greece. Greeks voting abroad

At the same time, sources at the ministry of the interior mention that the decision is possibly legally tenuous, as the regime governing how EU citizens enroll on Greek voting lists is very “loose”. Any EU country-member citizen wants to enroll in voter lists can do so without tendering a residence document. The same sources, jokingly, said that candidates could solicit votes by offering paid for weekends to Greece on election Sunday.

As concerns European elections EU citizens can vote for candidates of their choice, local or their own, in any country of the union if they only register for the voting list.

According to interior ministry data, 14,973 Greek citizens have requested to vote with Greek ballots in the EU elections, however because of the distances that they may have to cover to the nearest ballot box, requests have dropped off compared to other elections. In 2009, 42,304 Greeks abroad had voted.

On the other hand the interior ministry in cross checks it conducted found 820 persons that stated they will vote both in Greece and abroad. Therefore these persons will have to submit a signed statement that they haven't voted in another place.

On the other side of the coin, 13,098 European citizens are registered to vote in Greece for Greek candidates in EU elections. Of these 24% are British, 18.15% Bulgarian, 12.41% Germans, 11.22% Romanian, and 7.15% Cypriots. Of these most are registered in the Dodecanese (1,661), Attica (1,237), Chania (1,074), and Second Athens district (1,068)