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Voting From Overseas

Voting From Overseas

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...

Read more: FAWCO comments on new FPCA wording (2012 election)

Voting From Overseas

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...

Read more: UOCAVA Amendment introduced by three Members of the Americans Abroad Caucus (2012 election)

Voting From Overseas

(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...
Read more: Voting rights for US citizen children born abroad (updated December 2013)

Voting From Overseas
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Lucy Stensland Laederich
FAWCO US Liaison
Washington Update Bulletin
 FAWCO is an original organizer of the annual Overseas Americans Week
in Washington


January 3, 2012
FAWCO Washington Update

Hello and Happy New Year!

On the very threshold of the Iowa caucuses, I wanted 1) to wish you all a very happy and most exciting 2012... major change is...
Read more: Washington Update Bulletin - Register to Vote - January 2012

Voting From Overseas

It’s up and running!  The 2012 FAWCO-OVF website for user-friendly voter registration…

Once again this year, we are proud to announce that, thanks to our long-standing partner Overseas Vote Foundation, military and overseas voters can register to vote and request their ballots directly from the FAWCO website, using the latest secure technology and benefiting from access to continuously updated state-specific...

Read more: N° 1 New Year’s Resolution!

Voting From Overseas

After a 2-year drafting process, the Uniform Law Commission unanimously approved a landmark uniform act in summer of 2010 which now, having received the endorsement of the American Bar Association, is making its way through State houses and changing the way military and overseas voters will vote in the 2014 election.

As things now stand, UMOVA has been enacted in...

Read more: Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act (UMOVA) progressing through State Houses

Voting From Overseas
us_liaisonFAWCO partner OVF has just issued its post-election survey on the 2010 U.S. federal elections, with the first look at how voters fared in the first test of the landmark MOVE Act, passed in 2009. It is clear that, despite the lower voter turnout often found in “mid-term elections”,  voters had an easier time of it, essentially due to MOVE-related...
Read more: Assessment of the 2010 Election from Overseas Vote Foundation

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