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...
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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...
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...
FAWCO 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...
