27/10/2016
A new report on America’s Overseas Voters: 2016’s Forgotten Constituency?, co-authored by Halbert Jones and Patrick Andelic, has been released. Earlier this year, the RAI published a report highlighting the impact overseas voters could have in a tight election. This study triggered widespread discussion in the U.S. and international media and helped to prompt a major overseas voter registration drive by the online pressure group Avaaz. The new report develops that analysis considerably, providing a more detailed look at US states where the result is most likely to be influenced by overseas voters, the profile of the population of overseas voters from a key swing state, and some of the countries in which overseas voters reside. In particular, this report highlights that in certain key swing states – where polling suggests the race is particularly tight – the results could hinge on just a few thousand overseas votes. It can be accessed at http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/voters
Earlier this year the Rothermere American Institute (RAI) at the University of Oxford published a report highlighting the impact overseas voters could have in a tight election. This study triggered widespread discussion in the US and international media and helped to prompt a major overseas voter re...