Five Questions With Democrats Abroad How to Vote From Abroad Joyce Vance Aug 30 ∙ Preview Roughly nine million Americans live abroad. Six million of them are eligible to vote. But not all of them know that. Some aren’t aware that they can do it and that it’s easy to do. VoteFromAbroad.org, run by the group Democrats Abroad, makes it easy to register and request ballots. The group is nonpartisan and committed to helping all Americans abroad exercise their right to vote. Democrats Abroad has 52 country committees throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Members live in more than 190 countries around the globe and vote in every state and U.S. Congressional district. In 2020, more than 1.25 million Americans abroad registered or requested ballots, more than 900,000 sent their ballots back, and states reported that they counted 889,837 overseas ballots. That means roughly five million Americans who are eligible to vote from abroad didn’t. We can help close that gap! Read on. We’re joined tonight for “Five Questions With” by Martha McDevitt-Pugh, the global chair and secretary for Democrats Abroad, and by Julia Bryan, a Democratic National Committee member representing Democrats Abroad who also serves as the Vice Chair of Democrats Abroad Czech Republic. “Five Questions” is a feature for paid subscribers of Civil Discourse, my way of thanking people who are able to support this work financially so I can devote the time and resources necessary to it, but tonight’s topic is so important that a key piece of information, the website Americans abroad can use to register and vote, is linked right here. Please make sure you share the group’s online voter registration tool - votefromabroad.org - with all the voting-eligible Americans abroad that you know, and with others who can reach them. The website makes it easy to request a ballot and vote absentee from any place on the planet. I’m grateful to all of you who are here, both paid and free subscribers. We’re doing the hard but essential work of civil discourse together!