Perhaps the most unique ballot cast in the U.S. presidential election was by a Moscow Jewish refusenik, Abe Stolar, who was born in Chicago. He confirmed that he recorded his vote at the American Embassy in the Russian capital in a phone call with friends in Detroit, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ). Stolar grew up in Chicago and graduated high school there. He was brought to the USSR in 1931 by his parents.
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