Timeline for When non-resident US citizens vote, which state does their vote count for in the electoral college?
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| Jul 31 at 23:45 | comment | added | Daniel Widdis | for completeness, I'll note that the federal government does provide a way to both register and vote that does not require a state ballot, the Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot, available to all overseas voters as an "emergency back up" option. I had to use this in the 1996 election when deployed overseas without mail service; the conventions hadn't even been held so I could only really cast a party vote. It still does eventually get to the state of residency and is handled like any other state absentee ballot. See fvap.gov/r3/fwab/state | |
| Jul 31 at 2:02 | comment | added | Mark | 37 states permit you to vote in that state without ever having resided in the United States, though many of them only permit you to vote for federal offices. | |
| Jul 30 at 17:27 | comment | added | Barmar | @user102008 That's why they said "some residency" rather than "current residency". It includes previous residency. | |
| Jul 30 at 16:28 | comment | added | user102008 | "and those states still require some residency." However, I believe that federal law requires states to register US citizens not residing in the US to vote for federal elections in the state if that state was the person's last state of domicile. So they do not have to have residency in the state. | |
| Jul 30 at 13:59 | history | answered | Machavity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |