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And still, apparently, no recommendation of online voting for registered overseas electors, who currently have to make use of postal voting (assuming that few wish to use proxies and thus lose effective control of their votes). If they are lucky (the luck level diminishes in line with the elector's distance from the UK), they may get their ballot paper before the polls close. Few, it seems, receive them in time to complete them and post them back to the returning officer in time sufficient for them to be delivered before the polls close. Even if one lives in an EU country, it's 'hit-and-miss'. If you live in some far flung place, possibly weeks' postal distance from the UK, effectively you are disenfranchised. It's really ironic. In an age in which it's considered safe - or, at least, acceptably risky - to conduct major financial transactions online, presumably the powers that be consider it unsafe to permit voting online. Has anyone told them the century in which now we are living?