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...election has energized Americans on both sides of the political spectrum like never before?and that includes the estimated 6 million Americans living abroad. The U.S. government has already responded to more than 5 million requests for overseas ballot applications, compared with 1.8 million in 2000. The sheer number of expat voters could make the difference in a close race. "The interest in this election is amazing," says Ruth McCreery, a translator and writer who is the Tokyo-based vice chairperson of Democrats Abroad for the Asia-Pacific region. "Thanks to Florida, people have realized that overseas absentee ballots really...
...overseas vote breaks down, Republicans are believed to have a traditional 3-to-1 advantage, thanks in part to large numbers of overseas troops who tend to vote Republican. "I think you can count on a lot of votes for the President here," says Caryln Manning, head of Republicans Abroad in the Philippines. But Democrats argue that there are lots of expats who are against Bush but might not have bothered to register yet?not to mention the possibility that war-weary soldiers might now oppose the Commander in Chief who sent them to Iraq. Hoping to capitalize on such...
...later said it had simply forgotten to remove an older block. And American expats worldwide have complained that many U.S. states have been too slow to respond to registration applications, prompting fears that some overseas ballots won't arrive in time to be counted. Both Democrats and Republicans Abroad are busy handing out emergency federal write-in ballots to voters who haven't received their normal state ballots yet; their federal ballots will count if their state ballots don't reach election officials on time. Casting a vote from overseas can be "really complicated," says Jeffrey Wilson of AmDems...
...Those complications, however, haven't stopped the political sparring overseas. Last Thursday the Democrats and Republicans Abroad held a debate in Hong Kong's Ritz-Carlton hotel attended by a spirited audience more than double the size that showed up in previous election years. One spectator was Tom Goetz, a former member of Republicans Abroad whose anger over Iraq, where his son is a U.S. intelligence officer, has prompted him to support Kerry. "I never saw this much interest and conflict among the two sides," he says, looking around the crowded ballroom. For Americans in 2004, political passion doesn...
Jelinek, 57, swims in controversy. Her novels (Women as Lovers) and film scripts (Malina) are searingly personal and political. She writes plays scourging Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Jelinek was little-known abroad until now; in one day, sales of her novel The Piano Teacher jumped a million slots on Amazon.com into the top 10. That's one Jelinek story with a happy ending. --By Richard Corliss