Where on Earth Will YOU vote? LAUNCH tomorrow

Our viral video "Where on Earth will YOU vote?" (with special guest star!) officially launches tomorrow on Monday, August 4, that is when we begin our "Virtual Search Party" !!! to find the hundreds of thousands – some believe millions! -- of missing overseas voters.

We know the missing voters are out there, lost somewhere between Toronto and Timbuktu, and they are not casting ballots.

Help! Join our Virtual Search Party on August 4th: Watch the video! Watch it again!
Send it to everyone you know -- Everyone!



Please, please, please commit to putting the video on the front page of your blog on Monday! We need to make this a huge YouTube viral hit in order to find hundreds of thousands (or millions!) of missing overseas voters.

While your waiting, here's our last silly clip from the green room of our video shoot in Paris. This one from Scarlet and Asha. Says it all really!

Myths "Leave me alone! One vote can't make a difference."

Wrong! Just take a look at recent election results.

Florida 2000: George W. Bush "wins" the state by a margin of 537 votes.

Washington 2004: Democrat Christine Gregoire becomes Governor by just 129 votes.

Ohio 2006: The race for a seat on the Erie County Democratic Committee ends in a dead tie.

Believe us -- every vote matters! Engage and help us find all those missing overseas voters!

Myths: " I don't have a US address anymore!"

Can I really vote? Yes you can!

"But I don't have an address in the US anymore."
Doesn't matter. The last place you lived will always be your legal voting address. Even if the knock it down and build a freeway. That's your voting address as long as you live overseas.

"But I've been gone for so many years."
So what. You are a US citizen and you will always have the right to vote for Federal offices. Forever.

"But I never registered to vote in the US."
No problem. Your ballot request form doubles as a voter registration form.

Just answer the questions at VoteFromAbroad.org, print out the form, sign it and send it off to the address provided.

No more excuses. Sort it out today.

A virgin voter. And an oh-so-experienced director.

My Mom's American, but I grew up abroad.

OK, you got us. Overseas voting is easy, but there's one grey area. And this is it: children of US citizens who have never lived in the US.

A number of states -- 17 at last count -- clearly allow such children to vote using the last address of their American parent(s). The rest of the states are silent. They don't say one way or the other. So, what should you do?

Go to VoteFromAbroad.org and request an absentee ballot using the voting address of your American parent(s). In the comments section, explain your situation. Wait a couple of weeks and call to see if they received and accepted your request.

If they refuse it, let us know. Recently, one such voter was refused a ballot in New Hampshire. Democrats Abroad stepped in and New Hampshire has now changed its policy!





Here's another silly clip we shot alongside our upcoming viral video (which will be ready for launch on August 4th!).

Sheppard Pepper is American, but he grew up in Paris. He just turned 18 and will be voting for the first time... from abroad. If you like his clip, give him a poke!

Shep is the son of our award-winning Director, Jaci Judelson. Jaci has made videos with skateboarder Tony Hawk, jazz singer Dianne Reeves and choreographer Mark Morris. Check out her work for clients like Mercedes. Nokia and Match.com.

Votes where they matter most

Every overseas voter sends a ballot back to the last place s/he lived in the States. Did you know that four of the biggest swing states are among the top ten with overseas voters?

Florida, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. That's where this election promises to be closest. And that's where a huge chunk of our overseas ballots are going!

Check out the Electoral Vote Predictor for the best compilation on the Net of all the latest polling data -- state-by-state and updated daily.

Who are we?

While we were taping our upcoming, celebrity viral video (it will be ready for launch on August 4th!), we had a second camera running in another room - just goofing around. In the coming days we'll post some of the clips we got, just to show you who we are, what we're thinking about, and why this election is probably the most important in our lifetime.

Celeste, what did you do last Saturday?