Democrats to invest six figures in turning out voters living outside the U.S. [Video]

The Democratic Party is making a first-time investment in registering and turning out voters living outside of the United States. The party is estimating that some 1.6 million Americans abroad are from crucial battleground states this cycle. 

According to details first shared with CBS News, the Democratic National Committee is investing $300,000 to reach voters outside the country — military and non-military. The investment, which the DNC says is its first in a presidential cycle, is meant to help “Democrats Abroad,” the main Democratic group in charge of registering and assisting non-military voters outside the U.S. with their mail-in ballots. 

Non-military American voters who live outside the U.S. include those out of the country for business, students spending a semester abroad and “digital nomads” who are able to work remotely wherever they want. 

While experts and operatives say the transient nature of voting-age ex-pats makes it difficult to track, the latest government datafrom the 2020 presidential election found that …