Overseas Vote Foundation
Nonpartisan voter-help nonprofit for overseas and military Americans, now run as US Vote Foundation.
The Overseas Vote Foundation helps Americans abroad and in the military register and request ballots. Its voters are at issue in a Democratic National Committee suit of 1 October 2026 over Pentagon forms lacking a box for Americans Born abroad who never lived at home.
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The Overseas Vote Foundation runs registration and ballot-request tools for Americans abroad and in the military. On 1 October 2026 the Democratic National Committee sued the Pentagon after two federal overseas-voting forms dropped the box for citizens who have never lived in the United States. Overseas-voting groups, Overseas Vote among them, note that the box had been on the forms for years.
Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat and other Americans living abroad founded it in 2005. It later widened to domestic voters as US Vote Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) based in Arlington, Virginia, and Overseas Vote continues as one of its initiatives.
Its tools sit on the path every overseas ballot takes, from the request form to the federal deadline for sending ballots, which in 2026 fell on 19 September.
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Written with AI from Lowdown's published reporting. Not individually reviewed by an editor. Updated 18 October 2026. Editorial standards.