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He said five per cent of Americans living in Toronto and 11 per cent of those in London, England, voted.

“So we have to get those (Vancouver) numbers up,” he said.

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He and Flynn Seybold said they assumed most expats would be opposed to Trump. It’s not known how many of the 183,000 would vote Republican or Democrat.

But the U.S. political activists living in Vancouver held the lunchtime rally, as their news release said, to “stop Trump.”

Mitchell said it would be great if Democrats could get a majority in the House of Representatives and “by some miracle,” the Senate, too.

Mitchell said every American has the right and obligation to vote in the election and they’re encouraging all expats to register before the looming deadlines and to vote, even if they haven’t in decades.

He said only 22,000 votes separated Trump and his opponent, Hillary Clinton, so the votes from Americans abroad could make a difference.

Mitchell said one million of the nine million Americans living abroad live in Canada, the highest of any country.

Elections will choose every member in the House of Representatives.

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