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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Millions of Americans overseas can vote — but few do. Here’s how to vote as an American living abroad. – CBS News

Millions of Americans headed to the polls on Super Tuesday 2024, but there were around 2.8 million Americans living overseas who were also eligible to vote in U.S. elections, according to government data. Historically, only a tiny percentage of these eligible expatriates actually cast ballots.

According to the Federal Voting Assistance Program, which helps U.S. expats vote, only 3.4% of eligible Americans overseas voted in the 2022 midterm elections. Americans living in the U.S. were over 18 times more likely to vote than those living abroad.

Who are U.S. overseas voters?

The FVAP says Americans living abroad are difficult to study, but foreign and domestic data can be compiled to make some estimates about who they are.

The population of overseas U.S. nationals has increased 42% since 2010, and now totals around 5.7 million.

For the 2.8 million who are eligible voters, the right to vote is protected by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986, which requires that states allow military service members, their eligible family, and other overseas Americans to vote absentee in federal elections.

 

Source: Millions of Americans overseas can vote — but few do. Here’s how to vote as an American living abroad. – CBS News

Weekend FOTD 18th May 2024: Rough Hawksbeard | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

I have no idea if this is the right name for these flowers, for me they were some sort of dandelion. However, next to our garden we have a wild meadow which grows every year and it has a really good selection of wild flowers. According to Internet these are rough hawksbeard, although internet is not always correct.

Source: Weekend FOTD 18th May 2024: Rough Hawksbeard | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

♫ With A Little Help From My Friends ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

The Beatles’ version did not chart, not having been released as a single, but Joe Cocker’s version charted at in the UK, #36 in  Canada, and #68 in the U.S.  Interestingly, two other covers also charted in the UK – Wet, Wet, Wet in 1988, and Sam & Mark in 2004.  I never heard of either of those!

With A Little Help From My Friends

The Beatles/Joe Cocker 

Source: ♫ With A Little Help From My Friends ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

#art, Artista armenio Gorky – Armenian Artist Gorky… – JaZzArt en València

(Aurora Humanitarian Initiative)

Este artista, que apuesto que no lo conocéis, nació en Van (1904) y es armenio. De hecho nació en la Armenia otomana y en realidad no se sabe la fecha exacta de su nacimiento. Pero si sabemos que adquirió nacionalidad estadounidense (1920) y trabajo extensivamente el arte abstracto. A los 31 años y para encajar bien en su entorno norteamericano, se puso el nombre Arshile Gorky. Gorky estudio en el New School of Design de Boston (1922), ya que vivía con su hermana en Watertown, Massachusetts… Fue profesor de pintura y uno de sus alumnos fue Mark Rothko. Fue influenciado grandemente por Paul Cézanne. De ese periodo se destacan cuadros como «Paisaje al estilo de Cézanne» (1927) y «Paisaje, Staten Island» (1927-1928). Luego, después de atravesar por una época cubista, se decantó por el surrealismo. El fin de Gorky es triste y trágico. Sufrió de cáncer y de un accidente que lo dejó lisiado de tal manera que ya no podía pintar. Su mujer lo abandonó y se llevó consigo sus hijos. Finalmente, en 1948, Gorky se ahorcó. Tenía 44 años al morir en Connecticut.

Source: #art, Artista armenio Gorky – Armenian Artist Gorky… – JaZzArt en València