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Alicia Civita

Peru's Election Could Be Decided Abroad: How Millions of Immigrant Voters in the U.S. and Other Countries May Choose the Next President

Peru's next president may be chosen not only in Lima, Cusco or the Andean highlands, but also in New Jersey, Madrid, Santiago, Buenos Aires and Tokyo.

With Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez locked in a razor-thin runoff, the vote from abroad has become one of the most watched pieces of the count. More than 1.2 million Peruvians living overseas were eligible to vote in the June 7 second round, a bloc large enough to matter in an election separated by only thousands of votes.

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