Election Day 2016 is Tuesday, November 8. The law requires states to start sending out ballots 45 days before that – September 24. You can still register to vote/request a ballot in late September and early October, but that reduces the time available both for your state to send you a ballot and for you to return it to be...
Voting From Overseas
Celebrate the 4th of July by registering to vote in the 2016 U.S. elections!
What better way to celebrate our country’s birth than to register to vote in the November elections, and to encourage and help other Americans to do so?
The 4th of July often means barbecue, watermelon and fireworks, but be sure to add to your celebration the...
Make your vote count in 2016
Your vote counts! All states are required to count every valid absentee ballot that reaches local election officials by the deadline. Did you know that many elections for the U.S. Congress have been decided by a margin smaller than the number of ballots cast by absentee voters?
Register and request your ballot as soon...
We are well into primary season and it is already clear that here, again, every vote counts!
Have you registered and requested your ballot? Remember that we are now required to do that every year and, in many cases, for every election in the year. Don’t let the votes be counted without yours!
Requesting your ballot is easy from...
U.S. Vote Foundation has released a report on The Future of Voting: End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting Specification and Feasibility Assessment Study which analyses the current state of security and verifiability in Internet voting and makes concrete recommendations to make it more secure and transparent.
The authors’ premise is that public elections in the United States are a matter of national security.
FAWCO partner Overseas Vote Foundation has just released the results of its sixth post-election survey, launched on Election Day and continued through December 23, 2014. We are pleased that many FAWCO members participated in the survey and that OVF continues to provide FAWCO members, as it has since 2008, with advanced voting technology and up-to-date voter support.
While participation in the...

140 years ago on June 17, 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony began her trial for illegally voting in New York.
At her trial, the court asked Anthony if she had anything to say on why her sentence should not be pronounced. She responded by fiercely defending her right to vote, arguing that she had...