When we talk about how every vote will count in the battleground states, those include votes cast by Americans who are living abroad. There are about 1.6 million people living overseas from seven swing states.
Republicans have filed in Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania challenging the legitimacy of ballots cast from citizens abroad, including, get ready for this, military members. But state election officials and voting rights groups are pushing back against those suits.
Joining us now from Germany, Susan Suinat, the president and CEO of the U.S Vote Foundation and founder of Overseas Vote.
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U.S. Vote Foundation and Identity Digital, a leader in connecting the online world with domain names and related technologies, announced the launch of the us.vote website and Voter Journey Map, available today. The us.vote website serves as the primary destination for voter outreach campaigns and offers a new way to simplify the voting process for American citizens around the world.
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It’s a new day for U.S. citizen voters abroad,” says Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, President and CEO of U.S. Vote Foundation and Overseas Vote. “We invite you to visit our updated Overseas Vote site with its fresh approach to engaging overseas civilian citizen voters, and uniformed services voters[2] and their families. For too long, U.S. citizens abroad have struggled to find information and services that make voting from abroad a joy. We have that for you with Overseas Vote.