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The information is not yet published, however Julia Reda (https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1110514210176462850) is working on it. Also, I would suggest voting on a party-bases i.e. voting for Pirates in your region.

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I will vote not only on national-party basis, but on the voting behaviour of the international bloc they are part of.

For example, all members of (Dutch) D66 voted against this directive, but of their faction (ALDE), 60% voted for. I will not lend my vote to such a faction, so sadly D66 will not get my vote either in the upcoming May elections.

this this mean you won't vote at all? there was no pure anti-13 block iirc. not casting a valid vote is my generation's way of causing outcomes like the current one.

No, I will vote Green. They voted 38 out of 42 against. The four votes in favour were all from France (surprise, surprise).

Sorry, I voted for the Pirate Party the last three times, and they still didn't get enough votes for even half a seat the last time. There's a limit to how often I'm throwing my vote away. Luckily there are a few other parties with sensible policies.

votes for small parties are not lost, their main effect comes from causing the behavior of the large blocks to shift over time, even if only a little.

as an example, many parties now feature some feminist points, even though it was originally against their ideology.

I‘ve heard the same reasoning from someone who voted for „one of the big parties“ so his vote wouldn‘t be thrown away, the same person is ow complaining about the politics of the party he voted for. If you don’t give your vote to a party, just because it could be lost, you will ultimately end up with only 1 party to vote for.

Unlikely in Dutch parliament; we currently have 13 parties in its 150 seats. And the PP isn't my perfect party, and also not the only one with good internet and privacy (and social, and environmental, etc.) policies. I just would have liked them to get at least one seat, to get a voice in parliament, which can be quite effective, see e.g. the successes of the Party for the Animals (PvdD), who started similarly. I tend to vote for small parties anyway.

The question even is if i can vote for the pirates in my region. So far i haven't even seen the slightest bit of voting information for the upcoming vote.

Well nearly no information. I had a flyer for the SPD Senior Citizen Group in my mailbox...

Last time there was a UK election I had 2 flyers. Nobody came knocking.

Fortunatly in this day and age you can do your own research

I've been looking for a while for a good summary of how to vote that I could link to people, but not even on europa.eu do they have that, which really speaks for itself. If anyone knows of a good source, I'd love to know about it.

https://www.european-elections.eu/ is linked on europa.eu

Ah, I had seen that page multiple times, but was confused that it only presented the options "in ireland" and "in malta".

I now found out that I have to scroll to the bottom and select Germany there. Weird.

The selection is based on the display language. If you're a native English speaker voting in the upcoming election, you're aussumed to be voting either in your home country (Ireland or Malta are the only ones where English is official) or "abroad", which is the third option. German speakers would be expected to visit https://www.europawahl.eu/ instead.

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