'Unprecedented' interest in midterms from U.S. voters living abroad

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The midterms "were previously a big yawn and this year they are more like a scream," said Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, president of the U.S. Vote Foundation.

Nov. 4, 2018 / 2:00 AM EST
By Rachel Elbaum

LONDON — Mike DePinto was not involved in politics when he lived in the U.S. and he's previously voted for candidates in both parties. That changed last month. Feeling upset with the country's leadership, the former Los Angeles resident decided to volunteer for Democrats Abroad.

He now comes to the group's U.K. campaign office four or five evenings a week, calling Americans in the Democrats Abroad database and reminding them to vote in the midterm elections. "I feel like this election is determinative," said DePinto, 54, who moved to London a year ago to be with his wife who got a job here.

Though midterm elections are typically shrugged off by Americans overseas, not this year.

An unprecedented number of Americans living outside the U.S. have requested ballots, up seven times over the last midterm election in 2014, according to data from the non-partisan U.S. Vote Foundation, which registers a large portion of overseas voters. The group declined to disclose the number who had requested ballots.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/unprecedented-interest-midterms-u-s-voters-living-abroad-n925506?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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1. K&R

I voted and sent in my mail in ballot and also my three kids.

no one is sitting on the sidelines of this crucial mid term.