A Message From Democrats Abroad

(Democrats Abroad boasts an organization of more than seven million U.S. citizens living in forty-five different countries throughout the world. Ali Chalupa is the Executive Director and stopped by "Blogging USA" to share this message:)

Democrats Abroad's DNC delegation has arrived in Phoenix with one simple mission: to share with fellow DNC members across the country how we're working to register half a million Democratic voters living overseas by the 2006 election. Arriving from Canada, France Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Scotland, and Switzerland, our delegates have been describing some of the exciting new technologies we will launch at the beginning of next year: an energetic new website, an advanced membership database, and an online voter registration tool that will help tip elections in favor of Democrats in '06.

These projects have been made possible because of the tremendous support Democrats Abroad continues to receive from Chairman Howard Dean and the DNC. With thousands of Democratic grassroots activist living in more than seventy-three countries around the world, Democrats Abroad is honored to be part of the State Partnership project and to do our part to help Democrats win the upcoming elections.

We encourage Democratic leaders and activists to visit us when traveling internationally. Check out our website at www.democratsabroad.org or contact me, the Executive Director of Democrats Abroad, at achalupa@democratsabroad.org.

Comments (2) «

That's cool. I don't know why but I never thought about the fact we needed a registration and campaign section for overseas, BUT it makes perfect sense.

Good work.

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Buzz on December 2, 2005 at 06:37 PM

Friends, US Democrats all over the world are working hard to get Democrats elected. We want victories in 2006 and beyond. We intend to get our beloved country back.

In 2004, dozens of Democrats Abroad members worked hard to register voters all over the world. We continue to do so. During the crucial last weeks of the Kerry/Edwards campaign, teams of Democrats Abroad members here in London took absentee-voting information straight into the streets, finding passing US voters everywhere!

We walked the streets, stood in squares, tramped along bridges over the Thames to put Federal Write-in Ballots into the hands of voters who had applied for absentee ballots but had not received them. These anxious voters ran with these to fax machines and FedEx vans, doing whatever the law allowed to get those ballots in.

We saw many tears shed by grateful US voters, many of whom have lived in the UK for years, who just didn' realize that they could still vote.

US voters may find themselves abroad for many reasons - work, study, family. We love our United States very, very much. Please, tell your friends: Democrats are everywhere, we are strong, our votes count, and and we are united in our determination to get Democrats elected!
Diane Mueller
Secretary, Democrats Abroad UK
London
England

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londontownster on December 4, 2005 at 01:42 PM

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