Woo Hoo! Just got my absentee ballot here in Australia!!!

[MrModerate]

Straight to Fed Ex on Monday.

Take *that* McCain/Palin, you vicious, crazy, sacks of shit!

[Heather MC]

1. Congrats my DH just sent in his VOTE for Obama in Ohio!!

Take that McChicken and Failin

[RichGirl]

2. Good for you!!

A vote for Obama from the land of Oz!!

[anakie]

3. a big hello to you

from just up the highway - Eumundi. I have a work colleague who is an American citizen but lived here for years and I am trying to convince her to vote. Could she still be eligible to vote, and if so how does she go about it; and which state (US) would her vote be cast in/counted in.

I hope our comrades on this board get the same feeling we got last November when we got rid of little Johnnie.


Peace; and avagoodweegend

[MrModerate]

5. She'd need to get right on it. Many localities have set October 6 as the last day . . .

for registration/reregistration. The US state would be the last one she was registered in.

Overseas Vote Foundation is the best source for info (and they have contact tools, forms, etc.): https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/

Try to get her to do it! Every vote counts.

[anakie]

6. thanks n/t

[Eurobabe]

4. Feels great doesn't it

I received mine earlier this month. In my undisclosed location across the pond. :hi:

Straight DEM. :loveya:

[depakid]

7. Curious is to how that works?

[MrModerate]

9. Not sure of your question . . . the short answer is . . .

Once I got an address here in Australia, I went to Overseasvote.org, got a Request for Absentee Ballot form, and sent it via snail mail to the registrar of voters in my old county (Sugar Land, TX, former district of Tom Delay). They have subsequently sent me the primary ballot in February and the General ballot today, which I will courier back on Monday.

[depakid]

12. So- you can still vote on ballot measures?

We both love Oregon very much.

[MrModerate]

13. My county is in Texas, and I get to vote all the way from federal . . .

down to precinct-based bond issues.

Your mileage may vary.

[depakid]

14. Curious again

You don't live there anymore.

How is it you can vote there?

[MrModerate]

15. Happily, you don't loose your citizenship just because you live . . .

overseas. I'm just one of millions of absentee voters, and the laws typically consider your most recent registration location to be your voting "home." And as it turns out, I have a house and friends in the county I'm registered in, so I have a personal interest that the community continue to be governed wisely -- or at least "wisely" as I define it.

It's rather difficult to stay fully informed on purely local issues, so sometimes I'll leave an item blank rather than make a wild guess.

[depakid]

16. OK thanks for that

I suppose we shall see.

[GreenTea]

8. Bush/Rove didn't let millions of the overseas ballots to be counted in 2004 election, which of

course they stole very easily as we found out how many ways in which they did it since and expect at least the same from the fascist this time...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/politics/campaign/29military.html

http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/story/steven_foley/2008/08/01/uncounted_votes_only_1_3_of_military_overseas_citizens_cast_ballots_in_2006_counted

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

[MrModerate]

10. Admittedly, that's a concern of mine.

Last presidential election, I was in Romania, and the US consul hand-carried the ballots of local expats to the US for distribution to everybody's home county (since he was conveniently going to the States about four weeks ahead of time). Did the 'Lican vote fraud unit get them instead? I'll never know. I knew the consul quite well and he was as honest as the day is long, but who knows what might have happened after he turned them over.

[fujiyama]

11. Wating on mine here in OR

I'm voting in MI! I figure Obama has OR in the bag, though I gotta admit it was tempting voting against Gordon Smith (I've been here a few months on a semi-temporary work assignment)!