Mexico: absentee voting approved
AP reports: Lawmakers overwhelming approved on Tuesday a law allowing millions of Mexicans living abroad to vote by mail in next year's presidential election - a measure that could reshape the country's leadership race.
To chants of "Viva Mexico," the lower house of Congress passed an absentee voting proposal 455-6 with six abstentions. The bill was already approved by Mexico's Senate and now only needs to signed by President Vicente Fox to become law_ something he has promised to do. ...
An estimated 11 million Mexicans, as much as 14 percent of the country's electorate, live overseas, most in the United States. Expatriates are legally allowed to vote and hold dual citizenship, but have been effectively barred from participating in elections because of the lack of an absentee ballot system. -- AP Wire | 06/28/2005 | Mexico approves absentee mail-in voting