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ibejoeb on Dec 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I’m Giving Up My Passport

>Some 7.6 million Americans live abroad... We are just like ordinary Americans — except that we lack representation.

That's a wild claim. The author is absent from New York and is free to visit http://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingAbsentee.html to learn about voting.

arkem on Dec 9, 2014 [–]

I think the claim is more that there is no Overseas Constituency (basically a congressional district for non-resident citizens) like several other countries have.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_constituency

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