Voting From Overseas

Voting From Overseas

Studies* have shown that, in 2006, only 25% of military and overseas voters who requested a ballot completed and returned one and 1/5 of all ballots cast by military service members were rejected.  In 2008**, more than one in five (22%) of voters surveyed did not receive the official ballot they expected and nearly one-third (31%) of experienced overseas voters...

Read more: Landmark Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act (UMOVA) approved by Uniform Law Commission

Voting From Overseas
womansvoteWhile Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul are without question the principals in the story of women’s suffrage in the United States, many other women played important and prominent roles in the effort. This article does not pretend to be complete, but it will provide the reader with a sense...
Read more: The Woman’s Vote: Who’s Who

Voting From Overseas

A brief update:

I am finding that staffers are increasingly willing to talk to us, and think that is an indication of the success of Overseas Americans Week, of FAWCO's commitment for the last 10 years to election reform and of a new climate, since 2000, of realization that military and overseas voters really do make a difference. That is...

Read more: OAW 2010 - Voting from overseas - update and a request

Voting From Overseas
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FAWCO is an original member of the Alliance for Military and Overseas Voting Rights (AMOVR) which is conducting two surveys to learn more about the experience of military and overseas civilian voters.

 

Data will be collected and analyzed by AMOVR and will be absolutely confidential.  The survey will take about 5 minutes to complete and asks general questions about...

Read more: Share your voting experience (AMOVR survey 2009)

Voting From Overseas
country_of_residence.jpgIn June 2008, thanks to a partnership with Overseas Vote Foundation, FAWCO was able to post a dedicated system for automated registration and ballot request on the FAWCO home page.
Although we started late in the overall election cycle, we decided in September to aggregate the statistics on our limited sample of voters to see to what extent it corresponds to...
Read more: Results of voter registration & ballot request over the FAWCO-OVF site for 2008 election

Voting From Overseas
Make Voting Work, a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts, is organizing a “Summit” on Military and Overseas Citizen Voting, bringing together stakeholders from the Chamber of Commerce, The Military Coalition, the National Guard Association of the U.S., leading election officials, state legislators, members of Congress and representatives from organizations that reflect the breadth of the military and overseas community. 
Read more: September Summit on Military and Overseas Citizen Voting (2008)

Voting From Overseas
  1. Remind your club (and any other organizations, groups or individuals you can reach by electronic means) that American citizens aged 18 or more by election day can vote in any federal election (and it does not affect their tax status). Voters can fill out the application form online, using the FAWCO registration wizard. The voter chooses the state and the...
Read more: On-Line (low-labor) registration and voting campaign

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