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The issue of awarding citizens living outside the territory of a member State a vote raises a number of issues, including the suitability to have specially designed constituencies. For example, the United Kingdom allows citizens resident abroad to register and vote for a number of years in the last constituency in which they lived in the United Kingdom, and thus does not provide for special constituencies. This effectively spreads the vote without creating any new seats. Moreover, in case specific constituencies are created for people officially abroad, citizens de facto abroad will still be registered in-country.