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Wie ghets es Ihnen? We vote by mail
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By absentee ballot which is sending in the vote by mail.
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absentee ballot. and i;m happy for them that they at least care to vote from far away. it shows they care about their country, they care for the people (family and friends) who are actually affected by the election outcomes. there are many in the US that didn't know there were major elections today, and many who don't care to vote. sad but true. well that was me ranting, since todays election results we're what i had hoped for.
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Facebook, you can have the vote there. and i saw it just now
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Long distance voting is done via an "absentee ballot". Democracy doesn't work, so why bother voting?
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The other answers are correct and Americans who are away from home (not just abroad) can use absentee ballots to vote by mail. The voter normally has to go to the Office of the Registrar of Voters in person, show identification, and provide the staff with a mailing address to which the ballot(s) should be sent. The arrangement can be temporary (ex. if the voter will be away for a specific time period) or long term (such as if the voter is living in China). It is the responsibility of the Registrar of Voters to mail the ballots in time for the voter to receive them, vote, and return the ballots to the Registrar by mail before election day. The voter completes the ballot(s), there is a certification process involving two witness signatures to the sealing of the envelope, and the ballots have to reach the Registrar before election day. There is also a process for voting early. One goes to the Office of the Registrar of Voters and certifies they will be away from home on election day. The voter completes an absentee ballot and deposits it the the Registrar instead of mailing it. That works for someone who will be away short-term, such as on holiday. Corrupt politics can intrude into the process. For example, Americans who make the effort to absentee vote normally are more conservative (Republican). Registrars of Voters in leftist cities have in the past deliberately not mailed the absentee ballots in time for them to be returned by the voters before the election. Doing that normally outrages the citizenry and usually results in the removal of the Registrar (often an elected officials themselves), but they otherwise get away with it. It's a crime, but proving criminal intent can be difficult as the Registrars in question claim bureaucratic obstacles caused the delay. The previous registrar of Voters in my city did that in 2008. For example, my absentee ballot arrived less than a week before the election and did not contain the ballot for the presidential election. I made an official complaint to the Elections Commission for my state and they sent the ballots to me via e-mail. I printed the ballots, voted, scanned the completed ballots, and sent them back as e-mail attachments. The Registrar of Voters was removed from office (though > not < just because of my complaint), and the current Registrar has been sending the ballots on time. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To "Prince Charles",: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." Winston Churchill
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Just like when these questions goes to voting, you bring out your hordes of trolls and each of them clicks "vote" to promote your own answer. Communism doesn't vote, so why bother?
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