SITAROPOULOS AND GIAKOUMOPOULOS v. GREECE JUDGMENT 19 constitutional requirement to adopt “postal voting” for Greeks resident abroad had not yet been enforced. 61. The debate on expatriates’ political rights hinged on two opposing ideas and the majority of positions and practices of States, with different variants and nuances, fell within the two extremes. The first was the idea of a political community based entirely on territory while the second was that of a community beyond territory, formed by links of solidarity which united the nation. The third-party intervener cited J. Habermas, according to whom the notion of the democratic self-determination of a community “require[d] that those who [were] subject to the law and those to whom the law [made] reference should consider themselves to be the creators of the law”. This quotation reflected a notion of the status of citizen that primarily viewed residence on a territory as the decisive criterion but took objective account of the fact that it was not absolutely necessary for individuals to reside on the territory of a State in order for them to feel that they had vital links with that State. There was an increasing realisation that “it [was] possible to live at home and far from home”. This transnational approach to citizenship rendered obsolete a debate on voting rights for expatriates based solely on a territorial understanding of citizenship. The fact that electoral campaigns were now conducted principally via computer-based social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) proved that the argument of “distance” between the expatriate and his or her country of origin was no longer as relevant as it had been a few years previously. 62. In the view of the third-party intervener, the response to the dilemma of whether to grant political rights to expatriates could not be an “all or nothing” one. There was a need to define an objective criterion by which to assess whether or not expatriates had meaningful links with the Greek State and thus decide whether they should be included in the electorate. The League observed that in most member States of the European Union which provided for electoral rights for expatriates, the usual precondition was registration on the electoral roll of the State concerned at the embassy or consulate located in the region in question. Accordingly, the only objectively reliable criterion for the granting or otherwise of “a postal vote or other appropriate means” would appear to be whether or not electoral rolls existed at the overseas consulate. The response to the demands of the Greek diaspora to participate in Greek elections should be graduated in order to take account, in a proportionate and balanced manner, of the way in which the democratic process in the country of origin influenced the lives of expatriates.