U.S. Election: American voters in Canada brace for tight presidential election [Video]

Canada is home to the largest segment of eligible American voters living abroad.

Some 600,000 people who are eligible to cast a ballot in the U.S. presidential election live north of the border, according to the Federal Voting Assistance Program.

That total accounts for roughly 20 per cent of the nearly three million U.S. citizens living abroad who can send in a ballot.

“Canada is a humongous voting block. We’re bigger than some of the states for how many people actually live in this country and have the ability to vote,” said David Schellenberg, co-chair for Canada’s Capital Region branch of Democrats Abroad.

“For example, North Dakota and Wyoming, Canada is bigger than them for the overall ability to cast a ballot. The biggest trick, is sometimes people don’t know they can cast a ballot.”

Ballots from American voters in Canada count in the state they last called home.

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