The “mid-terms” – Congressional and state elections – will be held in the US in November: primaries and special elections are already underway. Every vote counts, especially while margins of victory remain narrow (a few hundred in recent state election in Virginia – 9 for one state...
Overseas Voting Reform
For most overseas Americans, the right to vote is their primary means of participating in the American democratic process. Civilian voter turnout overseas has increased steadily in recent years: overseas Americans have historically had higher voter participation rates than their state-side counterparts (typically 3+% of votes cast, for around 2% of the electorate).
In the wake of...
According to the post-election survey conducted by FAWCO partner Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF), the overseas voting process was clearly improved in the first full federal election since passage of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act of 2009.
An article by Brian Knowlton in the New York Times shows that while a little over 20% of UOCAVA voters were...
A Mother (and Daughter) Of Whom To Be Proud - Contributed by Tricia Restivo Saur
Published in TH E VO T E R The Newsletter of the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons Founded in 1977 Volume XXXV, No. 7
The following is adapted from an article by Tricia Saur…a daughter of Ursula Lynch, that appeared in a recent Bulletin of the...
The Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) is the document with which military and overseas voters register to vote and request their ballots.
A new version of this form was introduced for the 2012 election which raised concerns with many voters (see earlier article on this here). In response to requests from state and local election officials, the new form explicitly...
Representative Carolyn Maloney and two of her colleagues on the Americans Abroad Caucus, which she chairs, have introduced HR 5828, “A Bill to amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to permit an absentee ballot application submitted by an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter with respect to an election for Federal office to serve as an...
(List updated 8 December 2013 from FVAP website)
As an American citizen born overseas, can I vote?
Voting rights of U.S. citizen children born to Americans while overseas, but having never established residency in the U.S., vary by state.
Assuming you are one of these children, it depends on the laws of the state that your parents are voting in from...