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The passage of the Overseas Absentee Voting
Law of 2003 entailed the direct participation of all foreign
service posts in both the registration and voting stages of
the exercise. Registration at the Consulate General, which
took place in the months of August and September 2003, netted
a total of 1,292 registrants.
The Consulate takes pride in the fact that
this number, while considered minimal as a percentage of the
estimated 75,000 potential voters in this jurisdiction, was
the highest recorded in all posts in the continental United
States.
The “Consular on Wheels”
service of the consulate brought the overseas absentee voting
and dual citizenship law closer to its constituents. In these
services, the Oath of Allegiance to the Republic was administered
to dozens of applications for citizenship reacquisition in
places Burlingame, Milpitas, San Hose and Sacramento.
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