AMERICANS living in Ireland have been casting their postal votes for the US presidential election, and it appears the majority have voted for Joe Biden.
It's estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 Americans currently live in Ireland, and most have already voted by postal ballot.
It's understood that around 75% of votes have been cast for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Biden - like a number of US Presidents - has roots based in Ireland, having been born in an Irish-American Catholic family originally from Co. Louth.
Democrats Abroad - the official Democratic Party arm for the millions of Americans living outside the United States - has noted a recent upturn in membership in Ireland.
The Ireland chapter is now believed to have around 3,400 members - a number that has doubled ever since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.
Pedestrians read an information board beneath a giant painting of US Presidential candidate Joe Biden, erected in his ancestral home of Ballina, north west Ireland, on October 7, 2020."Membership in Democrats Abroad has nearly doubled since January with the kick-off of the Democratic primaries," boasted Democrats Abroad Ireland Treasurer TJ Mulloy to the Irish Independent.
The Ireland chapter of Democrats Abroad has, meanwhile, held 12 separate voter registration drives in ten different counties in the past 10 months.
American nationals attended information gatherings in such urban centres as Dublin, Galway, Cork, and Limerick, as well as Ballina and Sligo, and counties Cavan, Louth and Donegal. Since the pandemic struck, events for both groups of political sympathisers have gone online, with the recent focus on turning out the vote.
Voting from abroad is on the rise in American politics, particularly given this year, and there are an estimated seven million eligible US voters who are based overseas.
Reportedly, voter registration surpassed one million, three times the level of 2016.
