The article focuses on dual citizenship and voting rights, not as the rights of an individual, but from the perspective of state. Therefore, citizenship is concentrated into a power-political resource inside and between states, as a means of gaining and maintaining domestic power and interests. Our case is Carpathian Basin, in which the Fidesz-led government has sought to increase its influence by guaranteeing dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians. In addition, the citizenship and electoral policies are placed into wider European context in relation to external voting rights and the ideas of specific quota systems for the representation of the citizens abroad. We assert that the extension of citizenship with voting rights to those living abroad has transformed elections from a purely national matter to regional or even global issue. In Hungary it seems plausible that the new electorate, outer-Hungarians, secured the two-thirds majority for the government both in 2014 and 2018.