Web site aims to help overseas votersBy Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Monday, December 17, 2007
In 2004, the Pentagon spent $576,000 developing the Interim Voting Assistance System to help overseas voters request and receive ballots.
Seventeen people received ballots through it, according to a congressional report issued this summer.
In 2006, the Pentagon spent another $1.1 million to improve the system. Eight people successfully used it, the Government Accountability Office found in its June report.
But a nonprofit organization that runs entirely on a volunteer staff says it has created an online service that makes voter registration easier for Americans living abroad.
The Overseas Vote Foundation’s Web site, www.overseasvotefoundation.org, allows Americans living in other countries — including servicemembers, family members, expatriates and veterans — to register to vote.
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