Received: from icpc11.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp ([133.7.1.10]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1R1VOP09300 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:31:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.6.10]) by icpc11.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1R1Qp6f027453 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:26:51 +0900 (JST) Received: from edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp (edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.28.100]) by icpc00.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1R1VHNq011852 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:31:17 +0900 (JST) Received: from CJSLITT (cjsllit.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp [133.7.21.9]) by edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id h1R1VHkX029051 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:31:17 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <002501c2de00$5af272c0$09150785@fedu.fukuiu.ac.jp> Reply-To: "Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp> From: "Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp> To: <nifl-esl@nifl.gov> References: <20030226133357.96583.qmail@web40912.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8652] Re: Florida election issues Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:34:22 +0900 Organization: Fukui University Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Status: O Content-Length: 1333 Lines: 36 > Try an absentee ballot, Charles. > Your participation would be wonderful > for the democratic election process! > Best, > Robb Scott An absentee ballot would require that I have a residence in the US and have registered in that voting district. I do not have a residence in the US. I live and work in Fukui City, Japan. I file and pay taxes in both countries at a national/federal level, but I pay local and state/prefectural taxes in Japan only. I own no property in the US either, so do not pay taxes to a school district. Most Americans don't know it, but there is no ex-patriate voting rights for Americans. And there are some 2 million Americans living abroad. The servicemen/women (who do not count in that 2 million) who get to vote get to do so because their official voting district is where their home port or base is. One of the areas that really should be explored in the Florida election is just how many absentee ballots there were. The media made much of the military vote (which was probably about 70% Bush, 30% Gore), but in actual fact, the vast majority of absentee ballots were non-military who claimed residence in Florida but weren't in Florida at the time of the elections. This is a huge area of potential voting abuse that was mostly not looked at all in the media. Charles Jannuzi Fukui, Japan
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