FaxTerra

Where Faxed Ballots Come From

A handful of states let overseas and military voters return a ballot by fax. This map shows where the ballots faxed through FaxTerra came from, country by country and state by state, and which state each one went to, over the trailing 30 days.

Data as of October 13, 2026. The map updates when we rerun the analysis, not on a schedule. Part of FaxTerra Research.

For information only. This is an internal research project, published as it stands. The counts are faxes sent through FaxTerra that match our ballot signals. They say nothing about the electorate as a whole, about any individual voter, or about whether a ballot was accepted or counted. Nothing finer than a country or a state and a count is shown. It is not voting guidance: your state and county set the rules for returning a ballot, and the Federal Voting Assistance Program has the official process for voting from abroad.
218
ballots faxed
164
distinct senders
83%
delivered
37
origin countries
89%
sent from outside the US
5
destination states

The busiest routes

  • Japan to California: 10 ballots from 7 senders
  • Sweden to California: 9 ballots from 5 senders
  • California to California: 9 ballots from 2 senders
  • Germany to California: 8 ballots from 6 senders
  • France to California: 8 ballots from 5 senders
  • Canada to Florida: 8 ballots from 5 senders

Where the ballots went

  • California: 106 ballots from 31 origins
  • Florida: 84 ballots from 31 origins
  • Oklahoma: 22 ballots from 9 origins
  • Alaska: 2 ballots from 1 origin
  • Louisiana: 2 ballots from 2 origins

Only states whose counties accept a faxed ballot can appear, which is why the list is short.

Ballot fax flows: origin country or state to destination state
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Arrow width: Destination state, ballots received: Origin country, ballots sent: Ring = ballots that stayed in-state

Ballots per day

Every ballot send in the window by day of submission (UTC). The darker portion is overseas origins; the lighter remainder is domestic.

Every flow

The table behind the arrows. A destination is the state whose county election office received the fax; Toll-free is a toll-free destination the area code cannot place.

By origin

Country, or US state, the sender faxed from.

By destination state

Only states whose counties accept a faxed ballot can appear here.

How this was computed

    About FaxTerra

    FaxTerra is an online fax service. You send a fax from your browser or from the iPhone and Android apps, with no fax machine and no subscription required. Every account includes 10 free pages a month, and a paid plan adds a fax number of your own with an inbox for replies.

    Overseas and military voters whose county accepts a faxed ballot use it to return one. The overseas ballot guide explains the process state by state, and the free tier covers a ballot for most voters.