Americans living abroad are 13 times less likely to vote in U.S. elections than our compatriots back home. So what keeps us from casting those — often deciding — votes? An estimated 4.8 million Americans live abroad — and 2.9m of us are eligible to stand up and be counted as UOCAVA (aka Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) voters. But only 4.7% of United States expats voted in the 2018 election. While 4.7% sounds “shockingly low,” as the…

Representation Matters: The Still-Relevant Legacy of President James Madison “It was politic as well as just that the interests & rights of every class should be duly represented & understood in the public Councils. It was a provision every where [sic] established that the Country should be divided into districts…

I’ve never been all that patriotic. Part of it is that I’ve lived abroad for many periods in my life. So most days I feel much more like a “global citizen” than rooted in any one country. I also hold two passports – one for the U.S. and one for…

Elbridge Gerry would probably have preferred to be remembered as John Adams’s friend, or a key framer of the Constitution, or the fifth Vice President of the United States. Or really anything other than what he ultimately is remembered as: the creator of the gerrymander. Every ten years following the…

Restrictive voting laws are currently sweeping the United States. Georgia recently came under fire for a law which would — among other measures — limit the number of drop boxes, restrict the use of provisional ballots, and criminalize the distribution of food or water to voters waiting in line to…

This year, Americans abroad are concerned about their ballot arriving securely and on time. With postal delays and late court rulings, this is a valid worry for Americans abroad. Particularly those who vote in one of the [20] states that require ballots be sent back by mail. Every voter wants…

When I raised my virtual hand to volunteer with Vote from Abroad back in March, I was motivated primarily by a desire to give back. …

Roughly 6.5m US citizens living abroad are eligible to vote, but turnout is a fraction of domestic turnout (anywhere from 9% to 20%). The main reasons for this are that a lot of overseas voters: Don’t know they can vote Don’t know how to vote When they try, they run…

It is officially Ballot season! U.S. voters abroad are enthusiastic about voting this year. Vote from Abroad’s website is seeing 2 to 3 times more traffic than it did during the same period in 2016. We’re also getting a lot of questions as deadlines are starting to hit and overseas…