Get Out the Vote Activities in the UK

  Help Get Out the Vote for 2010

 Learn how to register US voters living overseas.

Help us win a Filibuster proof Senate, Governorships, House seats and much more!

DAUK is offering sessions to give you the tools you need to assist other Americans in registering to vote from abroad. You can then be part of DA Voter Registration Teams that attend American community functions like Little League Baseball or alumni association events, canvases in expat areas or registers voters at Democrats Abroad events. You can volunteer as little or as much as you like but first you need to learn the ropes.

There are other ways you can contribute to these efforts:  aside from canvassers, we need people to provide administrative back-up, to help make contact with relevant organizations and to work the phones.

Please contact  DAUKVote@DemocratsAbroad.org.uk 

For other ways you can help build our contact base,  go to the Voting and Electoral Issues Forum   where all the information is posted.

Overseas Voting

For everyone who needs to Vote from Abroad

To register to vote, go to www.VotefromAbroad.org where you will  find an outstanding online resource that enables you to fill in the forms to register to vote and request your ballot.  It adapts  to the specific requirements of your voting state and provides a painless and quick route through what can seem to be a complicated process.  You only have to remember to download. print the forms, sign them and fax or mail them off (it will even tell you what your state requires).  Spread the word!

 

To answer many of your questions, go to this FAQs page.

To find updates and more detailed information, including the tax implications of your vote, go to The Democrats Abroad Voting Action Center.  

Watch the video Where on Earth will You Vote and send it to your friends and contacts who live abroad.

As part of its work to support and improve the opportunities  for Americans abroad to vote,  Democrats Abroad conducted a survey and analysis of overseas absentee voting in 2008.  This report -  Review of Overseas  Absentee Voting in 2008 - offers some important data and observations on the problems overseas voters face and some interesting recommendations on issues like on-line voting.  Read it and be encouraged that Democrats Abroad is working hard to ensure your right to vote!  

Analyse voting patterns and campaigns in the last election

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Until we get a team running this PAN, we will  just provide some materials and space to debate the following three issues: (but need your suggestions for input)

1. Analyses of the voting results:

    What were the turnout and voting patterns?

     How can we understand any changes?

     Was this a realigning election?

We provide some sources of data and analysis here.

 2.  Analyses of the campaigns

      What can we learn from the campaign strategies and tactics deployed in this election cycle?    

3.  Voting and electoral reform issues

       What were the voting problems in this cycle?  How and how effectively were they addressed?

        What long-term issues still require debate - eg redistricting ?

Discuss voting  legislation and issues 

We also provide some basic sources on the following issues and topics: key legislation, voter suppression, electronic voting machine problems, use and misuse of provisional ballots and undervoting.

Go to the forum to discuss proposals. 

Produced by Elaine Capizzi with material from Stephanie Stewart