Abstract
Following their role in the disputed Florida recount, military and overseas voters emerged in importance in 2000. In the summer of 2008, then Senator Obama gave an important speech in Berlin, once again shining a light on this voting bloc. By that time, military and overseas voters had a long-established history of voting rights struggles, but still encountered numerous problems while voting, and remained a largely understudied portion of the voting population. Reflecting upon the amount of change in military and overseas voting between the summer of 2008 and the summer of 2014, the differences are remarkable.
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© 2014 Claire M. Smith
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Smith, C.M. (2014). The Future of Convenience Voting for Overseas and Domestic Voters. In: Convenience Voting and Technology. Elections, Voting, Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391070_8
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