Wait, Boris Johnson was born in the US?

I wonder if he is the first Head of State of a foreign country who is also a US Citizen and actively participates in voting here.

Does Putin count?

There was the recent prime minister of Latvia, who is still American afaik, but he probably didn’t vote.

maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89amon_de_Valera though I don't know whether he voted in the US when he was already president of Ireland

Btw BoJo wasn't head of state, that's the monarch.

Not sure the last part is that ironic, since he most likely believes in the separation of church and state.

Yeah he is a big White Sex fan.

I'm sorry mate, it's a baseball team. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox?wprov=sfla1

You probably are mistaken, but I choose to believe that you aren't 😉

I think there is an american sports team named Sox, that he is a fan of (?).

I can imagine that being a bureaucratic nightmare.

"It says here your name is Leo, but there's no surname...?"

The pope is not unique in taking up a new name when taking office. Monks and nuns also get a new name when joining a monastic order and it's not a unique Christian tradition either. Buddhist monks also take up new names. In both cases they don't usually change their legal name so in official documents they will still show up as their original pre-monastic names. I assume this is the case for the Pope too, he is called Leo but I bet on his documents he is still Robert Francis Prevost.

Practically, sure.

But I imagine it's a "do not concern yourself with earthly affairs" thing, which is why it's noteworthy he's still voting at all.

This is pretty huge, even tho he's not saying it's against trump, he's been (relatively speaking) very vocal about American politics.

He should have basically became a new person when acsending to the papacy.

All property, inheritance, family name, prior loyalties, citizenships, everything wiped away. Focus only on leading the church and nothing else.

Changing legal names for a country you don't live in and should no longer put above any others is kind of a moot point. But again, why it's such a big deal he's publicly voting.

JFK almost didn't get elected because people on both sides of the aisle were afraid of this.

20% of America is Catholic, and at least half of them will just blindly do what the pope rolls down thru the church. The other half might need some convincing or at least handwaving, but theyve been primed to follow orders their whole lives.

In two years if the Pope says "Vote D", that's 67 million Catholics who are both likely to listen, and likely to not be voting D in the first place.

I don't think it'll come to that, but the way things are going it's possible .

I mean, he has lung cancer and recently underwent surgery. At his age, being on two feet after that is a win. Edit: he’s only 71, maybe I overstated it a bit.

This is the first American Pope in history. Prior to Leo, the concept of the Pope voting in an American election would be preposterous. But he's from Illinois, so he gets to vote.

The world has been so ridiculous lately, it's been harder for The Onion. They have to get more extreme to match the current news. People forget that they used to do more simple, silly headlines, like this.

Citizens living abroad can vote, generally by mail and at the last U.S. location where they were registered

Not being a resident doesn't stop the USA to collect tax, so why would he not be allowed to vote? I get some difference between state and federal level but I don't think one should exclude the other in this case.

Why is he allowed to vote?

Becau$e? 🤷🏻