The 1.6M voters who could determine the US election don’t currently reside in the country

The U.S. predetermination mightiness hinge connected voters presently residing tens of thousands of miles away, according to caller estimates from the Democratic National Party – prompting a flurry of caller efforts to mobilize voters overseas and, they hope, swing the election successful Vice President Kamala Harris' favor. 

According to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), an estimated 1.6 cardinal U.S. voters surviving overseas are presently eligible to ballot successful 1 of 7 plaything states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania oregon Wisconsin. The states, which transportation a combined full of 93 Electoral College votes, are considered to beryllium important successful deciding the adjacent president successful an progressively choky race. 

Now, with Harris and erstwhile President Donald Trump locked successful a virtual dormant vigor conscionable 2 weeks earlier Election Day, this bloc could transportation much power than ever. 

Democrats, for their part, are wasting small clip successful seizing upon what they spot arsenic a important demographic of U.S. voters overseas. 

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A pistillate drops disconnected her ballot into a ballot container successful Norwalk, California. (Frederic J. Brown)

Earlier this year, the DNC announced a $300,000 concern successful the radical "Democrats Abroad," aimed astatine helping mobilize U.S. voters overseas. 

The concern is simply a first-of-its-kind donation from the DNC during a statesmanlike run cycle, a spokesperson told Fox News. 

It seeks to ramp up elector registration efforts by U.S. voters overseas, amended residents astir registration and mail-in voting operations, and wide mobilize the population. They person besides taken retired ads connected societal media.

Voters surviving overseas bash look further challenges successful casting their votes, which indispensable beryllium submitted – often by message – to the authorities successful which they are registered. 

U.S. voters overseas bash historically vote astatine a overmuch little rate successful nationalist elections erstwhile compared to their counterparts connected U.S. soil.

Additionally, 47% of subject voters surviving overseas participated successful the 2020 predetermination but conscionable 8% of non-military voters formed their ballots from overseas – a statistic Democrats are hoping to change.

In an email to Fox News, a spokesperson for the DNC noted that President Biden's constrictive 44,000-vote vantage successful the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin helped transportation him to triumph successful 2020. 

Georgia is weighing caller predetermination measures adjacent arsenic aboriginal voting is underway. (Getty Images)

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Abroad voters had a notable quality successful astatine slightest 2 of those states – Georgia and Arizona – and besides played a cardinal relation 2 years aboriginal successful the result of the adjacent 2022 midterm races.

Now, arsenic the contention tightens adjacent further successful its last weeks, Democrats spot this bloc arsenic perchance offering Harris a winning edge.

"This predetermination volition beryllium won connected the margins, and each azygous ballot counts," DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman told Fox News successful a statement.

The propulsion comes arsenic Republicans successful astatine slightest 3 plaything states person sought to ace down connected overseas voting successful the last sprint to Election Day. The Republican National Party and state-level groups successful Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina person filed lawsuits this period seeking further restrictions connected a vetting and verification process they reason is devoid of due safeguards.

Absentee ballots are prepared to beryllium mailed astatine the Wake County Board of Elections connected Sept. 17, 2024 successful Raleigh, North Carolina. North Carolina volition nonstop retired absentee ballots to subject and overseas citizens by Sept. 20. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Though national instrumentality defers to idiosyncratic states to found their ain predetermination rules, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act tasks the caput of Defense with implementing the registration and voting for U.S. work members and authorities employees surviving abroad. 

As of this writing, 2 judges successful Michigan and North Carolina rejected the lawsuits, which they described arsenic devoid of grounds and said hazard disenfranchising voters. 

Democrats, for their part, have criticized the ineligible push as a last-minute effort by Republicans to restrict elector turnout from a demographic that has until precocious been a reasonably reliable bedrock of GOP support. 

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"We’re going to triumph this predetermination by engaging each eligible voter, nary substance wherever they live," Rahman told Fox News, adding that their concern "shows our committedness to leaving nary chromatic near unturned." 

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