Participate in the OVF post-election survey!
FAWCO partner Overseas Vote Foundation is again conducting a survey of U.S.citizens overseas and in the military who voted in the November 2 election, wanted to vote but couldn't, or didn't vote for reasons of their own.
This year, their survey is even more important than in 2008, because of the landmark Military and...
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...
While 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...
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...
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...
In 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.