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Re: Overseas Vote Foundation

Posted by nick on 11/16/2007, 11:29 am, in reply to "Re: Overseas Vote Foundation"
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hi N.R.

YES, YOU CAN VOTE IN YOUR STATE PRIMARY: It may be, however, that you will have to register your desire to vote in the primary. If you aren't (and even if you think you may be) registered, go to the OVF website, (https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/) and click on the "Register to Vote" button. That will ask questions that the official US registration form requires to be answered and the program will populate the form for you so that you can simply print it up at the end.

The program also asks you if you would like to register to vote in your state primary, and helps you complete that question as well.

There are links embedded in the program as you work through it which give you state contact details so that you know the office/person to which/whom you may fax the form, and send the originally signed form in order to ensure your registration info is on file and you receive your ballot for the primary and the major federal election.

I hope this is helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know and we might chat on the phone in realtime or work through the form together online if you need that help.

Message me here if you need that help and we can work out a way to contact each other.

Thanks!

Nick

--Previous Message--
: Can I still vote in my state's Democratic
: Party primary? (Florida) And wouldn't I be
: beter off voting absentee in my State in the
: general election? (Florida, ahem, is often
: an unusually contested state and every vote,
: ahem, counts there.)
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hi
:
: A year ago I put up a message about the
: Overseas Vote Foundation. This is a
: non-partisan, non-profit, public charity
: that is committed to non-partisan overseas
: voter outreach and reigstration of overseas
: American citizens, State Department
: employees and active duty uniformed service
: members and their accompanying families to
: ensure greater overseas voter
: enfranchisement for US elections.
:
: I have been working as a volunteer
: representative tor the OVF here in Australia
: for the past year, trying to help other
: expat / business transfer American citizens
: to ensure they are able to register to vote
: in US state and federal elections.
:
: As the US federal election year is soon to
: be upon us, with some of the numerous state
: primaries already set to occur early in the
: New Year, American voters may wish to
: participate even if they are now residing in
: Sydney / Australia. It is entirely possible
: for Americans residing outside the USA to be
: registered to vote in US elections, and any
: US citizen is able to register for and vote
: in US elections if they wish to vote.
:
: In the past months OVF has been working to
: streamline and improve the online voter
: registration website to make it a completely
: integrated suite of voter services for
: overseas and Uniformed Services voters.
: This website will help anyone interested in
: registering to vote and will help answer any
: questions that may arise about how to go
: about registering to vote in US elections
: for any US state or territory where they
: were originally registered to vote, or if
: they have not previously registered.
:
: Go to http://wwwoverseasvotefoundation.org/
: and follow the links. This site will assist
: completion of the US government generated
: registration forms, and it will give
: appropriate information to help voters
: ensure they become registered to vote while
: residing outside the US during any future US
: elections.
:
: If anyone has any questions, please feel
: free to contact me on nicholas_marshall1 at
: yahoo dot com.
:
: Nick Marshall
:
:
: