Perhaps many long-term residents abroad don't really care very much that they cannot vote for the president of the ROC. It is also true, as John H. Chang notes, that "many countries, like indonesia or Thailand, havestrict rules forbidding dual citizen-ship, so they would never he willing to let their citizens vote for the president of another country.
對大多數已經歸化僑居國的老僑來說，或許不能選中華民國總統不是那麼在乎；或許也正如章孝嚴說的，「某些嚴格單一國籍的國家，像是東南亞的印尼、泰國，不會願意他們的公民去選其他國家的總統。