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Published: 10/15/10

Elections Officials Sued for Mailing Late Overseas Absentee Ballots

By Christopher Weber - Politics Daily

The federal government has sued elections officials in three states for missing a new deadline to mail ballots to voters overseas. The 2009 law requires local election officials to send ballots to expats and soldiers abroad no later than 45 days before Election Day. An unknown number of counties in New York, New Mexico and Nevada missed this year's Sept. 18 deadline. As a result, they have been sued by the feds or reached agreements to give military personnel and other Americans living abroad more time to return ballots, USA Today reported. "The department is working with all states ... ...

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Published: 02/10/10

The Expat Factor: Making Overseas Votes Count

By Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily

LONDON -- When the large brown manila envelope arrived in my mailbox, I was momentarily flummoxed. "What's this?" I wondered. And then I saw the return address: Illinois State Board of Elections. It was my ballot for the Feb. 2 primary. "Phew!" I thought. "Thank goodness it arrived on time." There are as many as 6 million Americans living abroad, with an estimated 4.9 million of voting age. But although overseas Americans have had the right to vote for decades, the process has historically been riddled with imperfections. According to Stephen Ansolabehere, a political scientist at Harvard ...

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