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 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%
Dealing with agencies and administrations is never easy, and trying to do it from overseas only complicates matters!
One example is needing to contact the Social Security Administration for help in obtaining a Social Security number, creating or managing a personal Social Security account, changing your information on file with the SSA, etc.
Two of the most common questions that...
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...
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...
Election Day 2016 is Tuesday, November 8. The law requires states to start sending out ballots 45 days before that – September 24. You can still register to vote/request a ballot in late September and early October, but that reduces the time available both for your state to send you a ballot and for you to return it to be...