Despite the chance to vote early, members of the charter commission, academics and community activists expect that these elections will see low turnout.
‘Unlike Serbs in some other diasporas, most notably in the Czech Republic or in England, Serbs in New York didn’t organize a public protest or movement against the current government,’ says Marija Šajkaš, a writer and political analyst from Belgrade.
‘If Secretary Ben Carson gets his way, families with one or more undocumented members would be told they must leave or separate, despite the fact that such a policy makes neither fiscal nor rational sense.’