{"id":276233,"date":"2016-10-29T07:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-in-nz-rally-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T07:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T06:33:29","slug":"americans-in-nz-rally-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-in-nz-rally-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans in NZ rally against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American expats horrified by the thought of Donald Trump as president say they are making a special effort to cast absentee ballots from New Zealand.<\/p>\n

An estimated eight million US citizens live overseas – about 21,500 of them in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

RNZ was unable to find any New Zealand-based voters who said they were casting their ballot for controversial Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump – but plenty said they had been spurred to vote against him.<\/p>\n

Some had not voted in an American election for years.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t vote the last two [presidential] elections,” Wellington bar owner Rose Andaloro, 32, said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t like to admit that, but it actually was very challenging.”<\/p>\n

But her fear of Mr Trump being elected was enough to motivate her this year.<\/p>\n

“She apparently still has her position, which is nuts,” Ms Andaloro said.<\/p>\n

Advocacy website Avaaz was among those encouraging expats to enrol and vote, launching an online tool to simplify the process.<\/p>\n

Auckland music manager Ayisha Jaffer said she was reminded to enrol after seeing ads for such tools on social media.<\/p>\n

“They said, like, ‘Don’t let Trump get in! Register absentee ballot now! Eight million against Trump!’ So I clicked on one of these websites and they made it really straightforward and easy to enrol.'”<\/p>\n

She had been encouraging other Americans she knew in New Zealand to enrol, even though\u00a0recent polls<\/a>\u00a0had shown the gap between Mr Trump and his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton widening.<\/p>\n

“I’m a little bit worried…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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American expats horrified by the thought of Donald Trump as president say they are making a special effort to cast absentee ballots from New Zealand. An estimated eight million US citizens live overseas – about 21,500 of them in New Zealand. RNZ was unable to find any New Zealand-based voters who said they were casting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}