A U.S. resident, living in Paris, examines her Federal overseas absentee ballot from the state of New Jersey several days after the first televised debate between incumbent President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry, October 3, 2004. Four years after overseas voting became a battleground in the presidential election in [Florida], election officials concede that tens of thousands of Americans overseas might not get ballots in time to cast votes, according to American media.