United States Embassy Panama
CONSULAR SECTION
Email: Panama-ACS@state.gov
Location: Building 783, CLAYTON, PANAMA.
We are open Monday to Friday, from 08:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
(We are closed the last Wednesday of each month)
Telephone number: 207-7000.
Warden Message: Overseas Absentee Voting
Act now to register to vote and request an absentee ballot for the 2008 presidential and general elections!
Eligibility to Vote
Generally, all U.S. citizens 18 years or older who are residing outside the United States during an election period are eligible to vote absentee in any election for Federal office. Some states allow overseas voters to vote in state and local elections as well.
Voting eligibility and residency requirements are determined by the various U.S. states, and are available on-line at http://fvap.gov/pubs/vag.html. Your “legal state of residence” for voting purposes is the state where you last resided immediately prior to departure from the United States. Voting rights extend to overseas citizens even though they may no longer own property or have other ties to their last state of residence, and even if their intent to return to that state may be uncertain. For those who have never resided in the United States, sixteen states allow certain U.S. citizens to register where a parent or spouse would be eligible to vote.
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