International Law

Americans Overseas: Register and Vote

[This entry will stay top of the page through Nov. 4.]

We all know this election is important. Every election for the Presidency is an important one, but perhaps this November is especially crucial.

As an American citizen overseas, you still have the right—and moral obligation—to vote for the candidates of your choice. If not your state elections, make sure to cast that federal ballot. Go to the Overseas Vote Foundation or the Federal Voting Assistance Program to register and request an absentee ballot to return by mail.

I have heard that FedEx will return the ballots free for Americans voting from Korea. But they have forbidden me from stating such, from providing you a link to their press release or any other confirmation of my understanding (stupidly, I forgot what big corporations are like and asked their corporate-communications department for permission). I recommend you contact FedEx directly to ask about their ballot-return service. It seems like a very patriotic thing for an American company to do for its country, and FedEx ought to be praised for this, no matter how weak and weaselly their corporate-communications department.

As for me, I’m voting for John McCain and recommend you consider the issues and the candidates carefully, before you vote for McCain your own self.

Full post as published by Korea Law Blog on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).