Well, that's one way to keep people from voting in the primary

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19. We Americans Abroad are a convenient group to ignore.

Estimates range from 5.2 million to over 9 million. We are often double taxed (both by the USA and the country of residence), and prevented, whether by design or by bureaucratic incompetence, from voting. Since we are often aware and educated, we tend to be Democrats. Republicans don’t like that. Republican-run states like Texas thus put up what barriers they can. ALL other countries in the world respect Residence-Based Taxation (except Eritrea), or RBT. Some Democrats don’t like RBT because it’s convenient to portray us all as billionaire tax refugees living tax-free on a yacht moored in the harbor of Monte Carlo. Even if there IS such an animal, the other nine million of us are not.

But even though we have a population greater than many states, we have no representation in Congress, and due to double taxation, not a lot of spare cash for campaign contributions. I keep reminding Democrats that keep coming to us with their hands outstretched every election cycle that continued ignoring of RBT costs Democrats contributions of between $300,000,000 and $500,000,000 every election cycle, but apparently that’s too trivial a sum for them to bother with.