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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:09 pm Post subject: voting absentee in the US |
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I'm leaving Kansas City on the Missouri side and putting my stuff in my mother's garage in Kansas.
How do I vote? Where can I vote? Can I vote? -Jeff |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Google "voter registration Kansas" and there should be a result for your state registrar's web site. It will list the requirements for voting absentee. There will be a form you can print out, sign, and mail to the registrar's office. Then they will mail you the ballot. Be aware there are usually deadlines for applying for and returning an absentee ballot. |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| If I'm selling my house in Missouri then do I have a residency? -Jeff |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I would check with your county clerk's office before you leave. Even though I've been here for 3 years, I'm still a resident of Oregon. They use my last physical address to determine what district I vote in. When you get here you'll have to send (or fax) the county clerk's office you new address. They will mail you out an absentee ballot about 6 weeks before the election (I just recieved mine).
Now if your leaving before the November election and you want to vote, you'll have to ask your county clerk's office for a absentee ballot due to the fact you'll be out of the country.
Either way I'd contact them and ask what the procedure is for your area. It can vary depending upon the rules of the county and state. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Generally speaking, we can declare ourselves a resident of any state we want. Most (all?) of us have an 'permanent address' to put on forms. I think most people use their parents' address as their official permanent residence while out of the country. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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In Oregon it's based on the last physical address you had. I'm not sure whether or not I could say I've changed my address to my mom's address (which is in another part of the state and much more conservative then where I last lived).
Once you recieve your ballot, you should probably try to vote and send it back as quickly as possible allowing at least two weeks min for it to get back to the US. It probably won't take that long, but you never know. |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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I just did an absentee vote at the office in Kansas City on the Missouri side for the local election in November.
I told her I was moving oversees and she remembered talking to me on the phone. I have a card that I use to request the next federal ballot. Kansas City, MO will handle sending the ballot but since I will no longer be a resident of Kansas City, MO I will only get a federal ballot.
I suppose I could count my mom's house in Kansas or find a friend's address in Missouri but I'm not sure how legal that would be.
-Jeff |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Note that the military has different rules. -Jeff |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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There are absentee voter registration forms at the US embassy and you can register to have a form sent to you anywhere in Korea. Then after you fill it out, stuff it in the envelope provided and then put the whole thing in a larger envelope and have it sent to the the US embassy, who will then send it back to whatever state election you wish to participate in.
There was a guy who represented the Democratic going around Itaewon registering people to vote, that was how I got my ballot. I did it for the 2004 presidential election.
The good thing about voting overseas is that you can vote earlier than those people in the states.
The problem is, alot of times the overseas ballots are not counted toward the overall electoral vote, which sux.....
That was one of the biggest problems during the sham vote in 2000 and possibly again in 2004 |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm confused. -Jeff |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
There are absentee voter registration forms at the US embassy and you can register to have a form sent to you anywhere in Korea. Then after you fill it out, stuff it in the envelope provided and then put the whole thing in a larger envelope and have it sent to the the US embassy, who will then send it back to whatever state election you wish to participate in.
There was a guy who represented the Democratic going around Itaewon registering people to vote, that was how I got my ballot. I did it for the 2004 presidential election.
The good thing about voting overseas is that you can vote earlier than those people in the states.
The problem is, alot of times the overseas ballots are not counted toward the overall electoral vote, which sux.....
That was one of the biggest problems during the sham vote in 2000 and possibly again in 2004 |
I am not sure I am going to vote. I am registered to vote, but I didn't apply for a form, and if it takes six weeks to get it, the election would be over by then. Anyway, where I last voted, they voted very heavily for Bush, and from looking at reports the democrats won't take a seat there. It is too bad you can't just get a form from the embassy and vote. Are you sure it takes six weeks to get the form if I send it in say next Tuesday? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
There are absentee voter registration forms at the US embassy and you can register to have a form sent to you anywhere in Korea. Then after you fill it out, stuff it in the envelope provided and then put the whole thing in a larger envelope and have it sent to the the US embassy, who will then send it back to whatever state election you wish to participate in.
There was a guy who represented the Democratic going around Itaewon registering people to vote, that was how I got my ballot. I did it for the 2004 presidential election.
The good thing about voting overseas is that you can vote earlier than those people in the states.
The problem is, alot of times the overseas ballots are not counted toward the overall electoral vote, which sux.....
That was one of the biggest problems during the sham vote in 2000 and possibly again in 2004 |
As I understand it, 55% of Americans do not believe that George Bush was elected fairly in 2004. I don't think more than 51% of the population is democrat, so I would guess that maybe 10% of Republicans possibly agree. There was a huge discrepancy between the polls and the results. The polls are scientific. They showed John Kerry winning by a significant margin. Instead, Bush won. Many studies showed that it was theoretically scientifically a serious stretch for Bush to have won the election. I used to dismiss that idea as a conspiracy theory, but I read so much rational, logical argumentation using scientific reasoning leading me only to conclude the private companies that tabulated the elections were not honest. Anyway, I still don't understand why election machines have no paper ballot back-up? I also heard the disgraced Bob Ney and some Republicans went against paper back-up.
If there was a paper trail, at least people from both parties and the people would feel confident about the elections. In the past, the US would label such elections in other countries with a massive question mark.
I think, though, with much anger regarding the war, if there is an obvious
deviation from the polls, then there will be some anger. If the American people were like the Greeks, French, or even the Americans of the 1800s, they would be out in the streets raising hell. People have become too docile. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| The district in which I am registered to vote (never actually lived there except for a few months once between contracts) lists on their web site the names of people who have already voted absentee for a given election. So you can check and see if your ballot was received/counted. (The county allows early voting for all people, not just those who are away.) |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer, I thought you were Canadian? |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:42 am Post subject: |
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[quote="Kimchieluver"]Adventurer, I thought you were Canadian?[/quote
Kimchieluver, I am a Canadian, and I am an American citizen as well, so, as it follows, I can vote. I voted for Kerry last time, who I believe won the election, despite who is in the White House.
Rock the vote! LOL
Anyway, I thought I posted a response, but it didn't show up... |
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