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geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

Anyone know the process of getting an absentee ballot for the upcoming November election?

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

During the 2004 elections, both the GOP and the Dems campaigned in Mexico, to the million or so Americans that reside here. Both parties will advertise in the News and other media to get your vote.

MO39 · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject:

I suggest checking with the American Embassy.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I think you have to register at the Embassy and that they will issue you with the appropriate absentee ballot.

Unless things have changed since 2004, or they are different in Mexico than in Europe.

MO39 · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject:

I wonder if you can register with the Embassy while you're still on a tourist visa...

corporatehuman · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 198 Location: Mexico City

Search online. The rules vary from state to state. I just requested my absentee ballot and I did this before for the governor elections while I was in Chiapas. I just had to print out a form and mail it to my office, they sent me the form and I voted. It's easy. Don't go to the embassy; all info should be on internet. Just make sure to vote for Barack.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

kosherpickle · Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 93

hilary scares the beejesus out of me...actually, all of them do to one extent or another, but obama seems the lesser of the evils to me.
he gets my vote.

sarliz · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 198 Location: Jalisco

If you check here https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/overseas/home.htm for your individual state info, you should be good. I downloaded the Illinois info and managed to send in my registration in time to vote in the primaries. I got a email from an actual person with the downloadable ballot attached and everything. Go democracy! (Also go Obama!)

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

Interesting to note the votes seem to be going according to type now. I was reading yesterday, that Obamas' votes are coming from the young ('cos he's young), blacks ('cos he's half-black) and men ('cos he's not a woman). And Hillary's come from older people (she's 60) and women ('cos she's a woman!)

I despair of this kind of voting pattern, which takes the attitude, "What can she/he do for me?", rather than "What can she/he do for the country, and therefore eventually for me".

MO39 · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject:

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

Very true, MO39. I find this election much more interesting than usual. At this stage, it would be a brave person that bet any money on who will be the next president!

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

MO39 · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

I'm not surprised by this figure. The more disenfranchised you feel you are within your society, the more you're apt to think that someone who at least looks like may give you a fairer shake than you've enjoyed so far.

MO39 · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: