We are going to be voting with absentee ballots for this upcoming election.
We missed the opportunity to do so 4 years ago because it wasn’t advertised so much as it has been lately. We have a couple of websites where we can go to register to vote, a ballot will be sent to our email addresses when the time gets a bit closer, I’m told, and we’ll be able to either print it out, and return it to the Embassy, or fill it out, and return it online. Votersabroad.org is the website I used to get us started.
We are finding it hard to wait. Now that we’re registered as living outside the US, we only have to reregister if anything in our status changes.
How exciting. We don’t plan to have anything to do with voting for anything except Presidential elections, as the State, and Local elections don’t pertain to us living here. It would be silly to interfere with what goes on at that level as we no longer know those people running for election.
I’ll let you know when we finally get our ballots, and how we returned them.
Until then, stay safe.
Post script: please, get out, and vote as if your life depends on it because it does.
Fight, fight, fight.