International tensions beyond North Korea remain: Britain is preparing to exit from the European Union, and elections overseas could have economic implications.
Driving patterns also give us a window into big political moments, including some of the elections overseas.
Indeed, the announcement of the new measures, the first taken by any government against Russian interference in elections overseas, will be welcome in the Kremlin.
Putin's Russia is even more dismissive of the restraints of international law, expropriating sovereign territory, invading neighboring nations, assassinating domestic enemies abroad, and blatantly manipulating elections overseas (a subject in which, of course, the United States once showed a certain expertise).
A larger data set, including other American elections and overseas elections, produced a similar result.
Glenn Cowan, who as a consultant to the United States Agency for International Development has trained election monitors overseas since 1985, said somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 monitors had been deployed by various organizations.
In 1982, he was elected to Congress from New Mexico, and when he arrived back on Capitol Hill, he set about establishing himself as a junior statesman — serving as an election monitor overseas, winning a place on the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
According to the Election Commission, overseas Indians wishing to register to vote have to fill out a form, have it certified by an Indian foreign service officer in the country where they live, and send the form and other documents to the voter registration offices closest to their official residence in India.
A small liaison office based in the Pentagon, the FVAP provides voting materials to the departments of defence and state for soldiers and civilians abroad, and preaches overseas election law to thousands of local election officials back home.
It was meant to be a simple reminder from Ms. Harris, similar to those her predecessors had routinely sent out, that state election rules required overseas ballots to have been "postmarked or signed and dated" by Election Day.
