ACA American Citizens Abroad

How many potential US voters live outside the USA?  In an effort to answer that question, Dr. Claire M. Smith of the Overseas Vote Foundation has prepared an in-depth study of different estimates of both military and civilian US citizens living abroad. Read the document (pdf).

At the recent Overseas Vote Foundation Summit Conference in Munich, ACA Director Roland Crim  explained why the seemingly unrelated strands of expatriate taxation, voting and lackluster US export performance actually form a tightly woven fabric.  His comments are reproduced below.

On January 7th 2009, the Pew Center on the States released a report on its research and investigation into the shortcomings of current voting procedures affecting Americans overseas, particularly military voters.  ACA fully supports the Pew initiative and joins its voice to that of the Overseas Vote Foundation and the National Defense Committee as specified in their joint press release .   

The Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) has premiered a new publication: its Research Newsletter, edited by Research Director Claire M. Smith, who is also an ACA Country Contact in Germany.