Why voting can improve life overseas

An article by Laureen Scharps (AIWC Frankfurt)

The deadline to register to vote is approaching. Your local election official should receive your application at least 45 days before the midterm elections, to be held on November 6, 2018. That means you need to submit your application now or by early September the latest.

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Honor the 170th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention - register to vote in 2018!

The Seneca Falls Convention

1848 saw revolution sweep across Europe and the first convention for women’s rights – the Seneca Falls Convention – in the United States. Reformers Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first planned a convention in 1840, after both women had been refused seats as delegates to the World Antislavery Convention in London. Various things intervened (including...

Vote in US elections from abroad

An article by Laureen Scharps (AIWC Frankfurt)

Organizing a voter registration event as part of your club activities makes sense, especially if you live in a city with a consulate or embassy, whose staff are often eager to help. For example, AIWC Frankfurt invited Sevak Tsaturyan, Vice-Consul, US Consulate-General Frankfurt, to speak about voter registration at their monthly all-club coffee...

Overseas Americans: register now to vote in the 2018 US election!

Overseas Americans often complain that US law takes no account of them and indeed often imposes extra burdens on them. But there is no reason for US lawmakers to consider our concerns, if we play no part in deciding whether they keep their jobs. Voter turnout in the US is much worse than that in many developed countries: around 65%

Taking aim at the Election Assistance Commission

At precisely the time when we are seeing multiple threats take shape against US election systems, whether in the form of hacking by foreign or domestic agents or of newly created constraints that limit access to the polls in one way or another, the one agency established to protect the integrity of those same systems is once again – this...

Register now to ensure you can vote in 2017

Celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), or just your right to vote, by registering now to ensure you can vote in US elections taking place in 2017. The next national election will be in 2018 – when the whole House of Representatives and one third of the Senate is up for election – but several special federal elections, and many...