Americans living overseas head to polls
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Democrats living overseas became the first to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries, casting ballots at the stroke of midnight in Indonesia, where Sen. Barack Obama lived as a child.
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Candidates are seeking out wealthy Americans overseas, especially in financial centers like London and Hong Kong.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. WASHINGTON, Washington, United States of America -- Americans vote Tuesday in one of the closest presidential
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A flood of foreign observers is expected for the Dec. 26 rerun of the presidential vote.
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Friday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a controversial decision by Missouri's Secretary of State: the state of Missouri will be allowing soldiers stationed overseas to cast ballots via e-mail. Their absentee ballots will be scanned and converted to PDF files, which will be emailed to the Defense Department, printed out, and then faxed to Missouri.  I'm in favor of helping soldiers vote; this is a democracy, everyone should be able to vote. Yet I'm deeply skeptical of this proposal, for two reasons:  The plan depends on e-mailed ballots being printed out and faxed by the Defense Department but does not provide any safeguards against soldiers being sanctioned for how they have voted;  The transmission method is inherently technically insecure
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On Super Tuesday, voters in Beijing will cast ballots for the U.S. Democratic Party presidential candidate of their choice.Members of Democrats Abroad in China will be eligible, along with fellow party members in other countries outside the U.S., to participate in the first-ever Democratic Global Presidential Primary, a party initiative to increase voting options for Democrats living overseas, including e-voting.&quot;Americans living abroad are a constituency of their own, and we should have a voice of our own. We have different issues, and different takes on issues. That at least one party has recognized that it is its own constituency is a step forward,&quot; said David Wolf, a native Californian who runs a technology consulting firm in the Chinese capital.&quot;The Democratic race is pretty darn exciting right now, so I guess everyone is just anxious to participate. We&#39;re also getting a lot of new members. A lot of people are signing up. And the online voting is new,&quot; said Claire Taylor, vice chair of Democrats Abroad in the Netherlands. Taylor estimated that the group&#39;s local membership increased 30 percent, thanks to the Global Presidential Primary.In the U.S., Feb. 5 will see primaries in 17 states, six caucuses and a state convention on what&#39;s known as &quot;Super Tuesday&quot; due to the large number of states participating and the number of delegates at stake. The Global Presidential Primary allows overseas voters to vote from Feb. 5 to Feb. 12.At stake are 14 delegates, who will join eight &quot;super-delegates&quot; chosen at Democrats Abroad regional caucuses later in the year, all of whom will then participate in the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. That makes the overseas constituency similar in size to the number of Democratic delegates in Nevada, which has 25.Behind the electronic voting option is Everyone Counts in San Diego. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, it is &quot;a software company with a mission to make democracy more transparent,&quot; according to CEO Lori Steele. Its two largest elections to date were a 4 million voter mock election in the U.S., and a local authority election in the U.K. with 160,000 voters. Steele expects &quot;tens of thousands&quot; to participate in Tuesday&#39;s Global Presidential Primary.In order to facilitate outside auditing and transparency, Everyone Counts&#39; software is open source. The main components of the software are security, to guarantee encryption during the voting process; verification, to ensure that only the authorized voter is casting the ballot and then is not permitted to vote again using another method, and also to verify the total votes cast and the results; and accounting, to allow counting, auditing and certification of results by the appropriate election board. For the Global Presidential Primary, voting will be supported on about 20 different browsers, Steele said.&quot;When voters register with Democrats Abroad, they provide various personal details that would be used to help authenticate them.&#160;On Super Tuesday, just before polls open, Everyone Counts will issue each voter registered with Democrats Abroad with a ballot number and PIN.&#160;The voter is required to provide this ballot number and PIN, combined with select personal data that they used to register, to access their ballot in the live election.&#160;The system will only allow a ballot number to be used once, so if a voter has voted but tries to access a ballot again, the system locks them out,&quot; Steele said.To participate, Democrats living outside the U.S. must first become members of Democrats Abroad, then register to vote in the Global Presidential Primary. Including a final verification step, the whole process took him a little more than 15 minutes, Wolf said. Along with e-voting, registered Democrats overseas can vote by fax, post or in person at voting centers in over 30 countries.Members of Republicans Abroad are not being offered the same opportunity by their party, although overseas Republicans may still vote in state primaries by conventional means. Democrats who live abroad may also continue to vote absentee by conventional means through their home districts. Voting in the Global Presidential Primary does not change a voter&#39;s registration status for the general presidential election in November.In previous presidential election years, overseas American voters could participate in caucuses held in foreign countries, but those were limited and usually held only in major cities, making it difficult for those based elsewhere to take part. Also, because absentee balloting procedures vary not only by state but in many cases by county, voting by mail in primaries was often seen as more trouble than it was worth. Applicants must usually declare 60 to 90 days prior to the election that they will be unable to vote at a polling place, and then must return their absentee ballot no later than the election day -- not always easy in countries where postal systems are slow or unreliable.While she lauded recent U.S. efforts, including the Global Presidential Primary, to make e-voting more readily available, Steele said it lags behind other nations. &quot;The U.S. has really dragged its feet on accessible i-voting for overseas voters. Other countries like Estonia run an entirely online election for their voters,&quot; she said, for a registered base of about 1 million voters. Some states are already considering using e-voting systems like Everyone Counts&#39; for the general election in November. &quot;Using open source and having transparency in elections is what is going to propel this forward more quickly,&quot; she said.For Wolf, who has lived in China for over a decade, being able to vote electronically changed his perspective on the election. &quot;It has made it much more relevant. It gave me a deadline to make a decision, and for the first time in 12 years I feel re-engaged in the process.&quot;(Grant Gross in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.)
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American expatriates in Germany are turning out in record numbers for the presidential election, spurred on by the German public, U.S. military commanders or a newfound sense that every vote could be decisive.
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Strategies to limit tax bills for Americans living overseas.
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Long queues formed outside polling booths across the United States amid predictions of a record turnout for one of the tightest presidential elections in decades.
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By KELLY WIESE    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.  -- Missouri will allow members of the military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about fraud and ballot secrecy...
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Voters across the country Â from California to Connecticut Â are getting a taste of what living in New Hampshire and Iowa was like last year.
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Throngs of residents headed for polling places here on Sunday in legislative elections widely seen as a referendum on relations with mainland China.
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Iraqi exiles from Australia to the United States began registering on Monday for elections at the end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.
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Americans started voting in federal and state elections on today, with President George W Bush and Senator John Kerry locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the White House.
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Determined to make sure their voices count, some American expatriates who missed registration deadlines or are worried about the reliability of absentee ballots are flying home next week just to vote.
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It was almost as if Jordan itself was holding elections Saturday as Iraqi voters living here cast ballots on the second day of overseas voting in their nation's elections.
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As the American presidential election campaign enters the home straight, British politicians are among those awaiting the final result.