After a 2-year drafting process, the Uniform Law Commission unanimously approved a landmark uniform act in summer of 2010 which now, having received the endorsement of the American Bar Association, is making its way through State houses and changing the way military and overseas voters will vote in the 2014 election.
As things now stand, UMOVA has been enacted in...
FAWCO partner OVF has just issued its post-election survey on the 2010 U.S. federal elections, with the first look at how voters fared in the first test of the landmark MOVE Act, passed in 2009. It is clear that, despite the lower voter turnout often found in “mid-term elections”, voters had an easier time of it, essentially due to MOVE-related...
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FAWCO partner Overseas Vote Foundation is again conducting a survey of U.S.citizens overseas and in the military who voted in the November 2 election, wanted to vote but couldn't, or didn't vote for reasons of their own.
This year, their survey is even more important than in 2008, because of the landmark Military and...
Studies* have shown that, in 2006, only 25% of military and overseas voters who requested a ballot completed and returned one and 1/5 of all ballots cast by military service members were rejected. In 2008**, more than one in five (22%) of voters surveyed did not receive the official ballot they expected and nearly one-third (31%) of experienced overseas voters...
While Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul are without question the principals in the story of women’s suffrage in the United States, many other women played important and prominent roles in the effort. This article does not pretend to be complete, but it will provide the reader with a sense...
A brief update:
I am finding that staffers are increasingly willing to talk to us, and think that is an indication of the success of Overseas Americans Week, of FAWCO's commitment for the last 10 years to election reform and of a new climate, since 2000, of realization that military and overseas voters really do make a difference. That is...
FAWCO is an original member of the Alliance for Military and Overseas Voting Rights (AMOVR) which is conducting two surveys to learn more about the experience of military and overseas civilian voters.
Data will be collected and analyzed by AMOVR and will be absolutely confidential. The survey will take about 5 minutes to complete and asks general questions about...