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david ingram replies:

The rule is that an offshore US citizen has to register in the last state that he or she lived in. if they want to vote in state elections or they can just register without the state affiliation if they only wnat to vote in the federal presidnetial election.  You will remember that in 2000, there was a wait for the Florida offshore vote to come in as part of the GORE - BUSH election.

The registration has nothing to do tax.  In 44 years, I have never heard of anyone in your position being asked for a statre tax return although i guess it might have happened. 

However,  if you did do the non-resident Virginia tax return, there would be no tax unless the source of themoney was form Virginia.

In the last month, I have done late West Virginia and South Carolina returns where the US citizen resident of Vancouver had state tax liabilities bu that was because of monies received from family farms in those states. And every year I do a Minnesota Xmas Tree Farm with tax owing to Minnesota and a California Almond farm.  By the way, Almonds are California's largest tree nut crop and the largest horticultural export from the USA. And just to make it clear, if a BC resident has a share of a family farm in Saskatchewan or Manitoba or Ontario, the BC resident has to do a multiple jurisdiction return and pay Manitoba or any other province, their share of the tax owing on the provincial business.

And good on you for registering to vote. I have six of the Florida Voting machines which contributed to the hanging chad debacle.

I do not have  a Republican site for overseas people but the Democrats are very active in registering out of country people.

Click here        http://www.overseasvote2008.com/           to register to vote, get absentee ballots. There is nothing stopping a Republican from using the Democrat site that I know of.
 
This is from a subpage within the overseasvote2007 site at http://www.overseasvote2008.com/sec_info_1.php

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