By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services

American Citizens Abroad, ACA, has launched its Voice Your Vote write-in campaign.

"Voice Your Vote 2020: Let candidates know that you will only vote for them if they support your position on the issues that matter to you, " said the organization in its statement.

The 2020 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate, along with the office of the President of the United States, will be on the ballot, said ACA.

According to the organization, as the premier thought-leader on issues affecting U.S.Citizens living and working abroad, voting rights along with citizenship transmission was one of the founding issues.

The campaign allows voters to ask the "Incumbents and Candidates " running for office in the 2020 Presidential and Congressional elections their opinions on issues directly affecting the overseas U.S. citizens community.

The write-in campaign is quick and easy to use either on your laptop or portable phone, said ACA.

Voters must provide their U.S.voting address, this is the last known address overseas citizens resided at before leaving the U.S. Incumbents and Candidates running in their district and for President will pre-populate the form so individuals can directly write to those running for office asking where they stand on issues.

According to ACA, many U.S. citizens born overseas but never lived in the U.S. may still qualify to vote using their parent’s last known U.S. residential address.

“The campaign complements our voting rights advocacy by giving voters a voice, providing the community with a tool for speaking to candidates directly, Roland Crim, ACA Voting Director. " Campaigns have traditionally been seen as a one-way flow of information to targeted voters, and this should not be the norm."

According to Crim, voter sentiment impacts a candidate’s positions throughout the campaign, and the more channels they offer for the expression of popular sentiment, the better.

Candidates running for office and those Incumbents running for reelection must remember that their constituency includes U.S. citizens living and working overseas, said ACA

According to the organization statistics research from its work on Residency-based taxation, between 5 to 6 million U.S. citizens are living overseas.

"These voters’ issues and their voice in the voting process should not be overlooked. Far too often the issues of overseas Americans are overshadowed by domestic issues, but this makes them no less important,” said Jonathan Lachowitz, ACA Chairman.

With more and more tax legislation directly affecting U.S. citizens overseas and with concerns over covid-19 and the effects of the pandemic, ACA anticipates overseas U.S. voter turnout in the 2020 elections to be high.

The ACA Voice Your Vote campaign builds on ACA’s already existing write-in campaign platform where U.S. citizens overseas can also find a write-in campaign to support hearings on the tax issues of citizens living and working overseas, Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad: An Idea Worth Fighting For.

ACA anticipates adding more write-in campaign efforts to its platform in the coming months.

Voice Your Vote 2020 campaign can be reached at ACA site.

 

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