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Paris Is Sending the Future of E-Scooters to a Vote

Residents will decide in a referendum whether to oust shared electric scooters from the city, in what could be a global test for micromobility regulation. 

Paris will decide whether to ban shared e-scooters citywide. 

Paris will decide whether to ban shared e-scooters citywide. 

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Parisians are heading to the polls to vote on an unlikely subject: electric scooters.

The public will decide in a referendum on Sunday whether to ban shared e-scooters citywide. The result could make Paris the world’s biggest city to kick rental scooter operators out.