[Libloather]

Ahmed Mohammed of Plano, Texas, sits in a van holding a flier suggesting how he and others should vote in the upcoming national elections in Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005, in Richardson, Texas. Mohammed and others members of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Dallas caravaned to Nashville on Wednesday to register to vote for the election. Nashville is one of five U.S. cities where Iraqi expatriates can go to participate in overseas balloting. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

[Allegra]

They'll pull back the curtain, step into the voting booth and do something historic — but also mostly symbolic. They simply don't have enough strength in numbers to significantly alter the results, and most of them know it.

That's OK. The vote may still count.

I voted absentee from Iraq in the 2004 election and whether it was counted or not, my candidate won. :-)

[Allegra]

Man, I want one of those Iraqi ballots for a souvenir. We're all trying to hatch plans on how we can get our hands on some.

That's probably one of those things we're not supposed to have, though.

Not that that's ever stopped us...

[Deguello]

"Kurdish Democratic Party in Dallas"

Note that any naturalized citizen of the USA that votes in another country's election is renouncing their US citizenship. There is no such thing a dual citizenship.

In our last election, the drive to register people living outside the US (barring military and students), who claimed dual citizenship was not legal.