Absentee Voting in upcoming Presidential Election

I heard Diane Kerry on the Bill Good show talking about
how US citizens living in Canada could vote in the next
election with a mail in ballot or something.
So the question is applicable to the US and Canada and
is:
How do "I" vote in the next presidential election?
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david ingram replies:
The Democrats are the best organized for the absentee
voting, hence Diane Kerry and her cross Canada marathon
of talk shows to encourage everyone, but particularly
democrats to vote with an absentee ballot.
To Do so, you MUST register with the last state you
lived in.  So, if you were from Florida, you will go to
the Florida link on the website I give you below.  If
you are from Maine, goto Maine, etc.
And you are in good Company.  The number of Absentee
ballots is expected to more than double this year.
Read about Florida below.
Good Luck.
There are several different sites that you can go to:
The best is One More Vote  at a Time. Goto
http://www.1morevote.org/
Individual states can be found at:
http://www.fvap.gov/links/statelinks.html.
DEMOCRATS
For Democrat voters, you can go to
www.democratsabroad.ca
This is a Democrat site which promises to help you
register to vote. Since they do not control how you
vote, even a Republican can use their services.
This reminds me of the Canadian Federal Election in
the summer of 1974 when I was a very active
conservative.  I had a 1957 9 passenger Cadillac
Limousine and had volunteered to drive people to the
polls.
A Catholic organization in Vancouver had me driving
their nuns to the poll two at a time for hours.  When
the votes came in, that particular poll had virtually
no conservative votes. They had all voted liberal but
kept the conservative limousine busy for the day.
REPUBLICANS
Republicans in Toronto had a meeting about voting
abroad in Toronto in May but are not working as hard as
the Democrats are to get the vote out even though it
was the absentee vote that got George W Bush elected in
Florida by some 2,400 votes.
You can find their site at
http://www.republicansabroad.ca/
You can find the whole law for US citizens abroad
voting rights at:
http://www.fvap.gov/laws/uocavalaw.pdf
Individual states can be found at:
http://www.fvap.gov/links/statelinks.html.
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Does Your Vote Count?
You will remember that they were waiting to count the
overseas votes in Florida in the 2000 election.  2400
Overseas ballots swung the vote to Bush as the
following item shows
Florida Sees Spike in Absentee Ballot Requests
The number of absentee ballots requested by Florida
voters living overseas is on pace to far exceed the
number received in 2000, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
More than 35,000 absentee ballots have already been
requested - 60 per cent of the 2000 total - with the
peak July-September season for ballot requests yet to
come. At least 9,500 of the ballots were requested by
US civilians and military personnel living abroad. Just
over 2,400 late-arriving ballots mailed from abroad
swung the Florida election in favor of George Bush in
2000. With Florida polls showing Bush locked in a dead
heat with Democratic challenger John Kerry, the
overseas vote could once again prove decisive.
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