Voting From Overseas

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Voting from overseas – how hard is that?

us_liaison_squareParticipate 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...

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

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...

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The Woman’s Vote: Who’s Who

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...

OAW 2010 - Voting from overseas - update and a request

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...

Share your voting experience (AMOVR survey 2009)

amovr logo2FAWCO 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...

Results of voter registration & ballot request over the FAWCO-OVF site for 2008 election

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.
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...

September Summit on Military and Overseas Citizen Voting (2008)

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. 

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