I disagree incredibly strongly with this idea - I'm Polish and Poland wasn't even on the map of the world for over a 100 years, yet the country survived. Then again during the communist rule we had a proxy government formed in London. Polish expats living abroad are definitely still Poles and as a nation we have a history of those people carrying what made our nation come back from the brink of destruction over and over again - the idea that as a Pole living abroad you couldn't vote is almost repulsive to me.