Web site aims to help overseas voters

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Web site aims to help overseas voters
By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Monday, December 17, 2007

In 2004, the Pentagon spent $576,000 developing the Interim Voting Assistance System to help overseas voters request and receive ballots.

Seventeen people received ballots through it, according to a congressional report issued this summer.

In 2006, the Pentagon spent another $1.1 million to improve the system. Eight people successfully used it, the Government Accountability Office found in its June report.

But a nonprofit organization that runs entirely on a volunteer staff says it has created an online service that makes voter registration easier for Americans living abroad.

The Overseas Vote Foundation’s Web site, www.overseasvotefoundation.org, allows Americans living in other countries — including servicemembers, family members, expatriates and veterans — to register to vote.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51042

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1. thanks, this is great

still have to hunt through the site more to see if it can help me specifically, but if not, I'm sure it can do a lot for others - I would guess more than 8 others. Now they just have to get something like this for renewing your driver's license.