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It's Americans voting in American elections, they can do that in here in Malmö, Sweden. That doesn't violate our sovereignty.

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Malmo is barely Sweden, anyway :P

They are not embassies or consulates in Antarctica, and operations relating to them should not be performed there.

In what way does this relate to embassies or consulates? You can vote from wherever you have access to the universal postal service, it seems.

Voting has absolutely nothing to do with consulates or embassies. If there is one, maybe they do simplify voting, but the right to vote should go beyond the presence of any office.

This is what the US government allows to do: no matter where you are, we (try) to guarantee that you can participate.

It's actually awesome that this is allowed.

A lot of countries allows remote voting. Some even without using a medieval technology.

There’s another word you should use instead of “medieval”: secure. Electronic voting is an incredibly hard problem to solve with the same level of privacy and integrity as paper ballots, and even harder to do in a way which the general public can trust.

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