Let Your Representatives in Congress Know Your Concerns Over Overseas Voting!

Posted by on March 18, 2025

Let Your Representatives in Congress Know Your Concerns Over Overseas Voting | Photo by Janine Robinson on Unsplash

The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) of 1986 allows U.S. citizens living to register and vote from abroad. U.S. citizens who want to register to vote from overseas can fill out a ballot using the Federal Post Card Application (FPCA), which they submit it by mail or, in some states, by fax or email, to their local election offices. In some states, Americans who live overseas can also register to vote by using their state’s mail registration form or online registration portal.

There have been several legislative efforts to ensure voting integrity however, most have not addressed the issues that U.S. citizens overseas may encounter. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act, H.R. 22/S. 128), will require in-person proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in U.S. elections. The SAVE Act risks disenfranchising U.S. citizen voters overseas who register to vote online and vote via absentee ballot. ACA, along with other organizations, has signed a letter to Congress letting them know about our concerns for overseas voters. ACA, along with other advocacy organizations, also wrote to Congress about our concerns with the PROVE Act which could disenfranchise overseas voters by requiring them to provide a U.S. residential address and the recent MEGA Act ACA Submits Statement for the Record on House Administration hearing of February 10, 2026, entitled "Make Elections Great Again: How to Restore Trust and Integrity in Federal Elections" - American Citizens Abroad

Please contact your Representatives in Congress and let them that voting rights for U.S. Citizens living and working overseas must be preserved and guaranteed.

Submit your message by following these steps:

Click "EDIT AND SEND EMAIL" in the box below to reveal the Contact form.

Enter your last US residential address and click "Submit"

This is your US voting address – it is the address where you last lived at in the United States, regardless of whether or not you have any current ties to this address. If you aren’t sure what your US voting address is, click here. Never lived in the United States so no US address? You may still qualify, see how here.

For these communications to be most effective, after the pre-formatted introduction, add your own thoughts about effort to disenfranchise overseas voters. Click "Continue"