Americans living in Australia are gearing up for next week's US Election, watching the vote count thousands of kilometres from home.
Democrats candidate, Joe Biden is challenging US President, Donald Trump, a Republican, for the White House, amid the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics says almost 87,000 Americans live in the country.
While voting is not compulsory in the US, Americans living here have already cast votes by post or online, depending on which state they're from.
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While election day is on Tuesday, November 3 US time, results won't filter though until late morning on Wednesday, AEDT.
Marketing worker Laura Meyers, who lives in Sydney, is the NSW chairwoman of Democrats Abroad Australia.
Ms Meyers said record early turnouts across the US have also been reflected in expats here, with more than double the amount of people joining her organisation than signed up before the 2016 poll.
"I think a lot of people voting from overseas think it doesn't matter - it absolutely does," she said.
"I think we'd be the 11th most populous state if we were a state."
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Ms Meyers, from Virginia, said she's feeling "cautiously optimistic" about a Biden win- but is also "preparing for the worst."
"It's been a rough four years for a lot of us but it's been really inspiring to see everybody get engaged and get involved," she said.
Fellow Democrat Abroad Australia board member Stephanie Zuniga-Maher, 40, has lived in Australia for 18 years but hails from Washington, DC.
And while Ms Zuniga-Maher has voted for Biden, whose running mate is Kamala Harris, she's not really that keen on him.
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"I'm really voting for Kamala, and of course against Trump," she said.
"I think he (Biden) will be a very steadying force as a president.
"Would I have picked him out of all the candidates that were in the primary? No, because I think he's old."
Mrs Zuniga-Maher, who works for an American software firm in Sydney, said she won't be watching the results in public - the NSW Democrats will hold an event at a CBD pub - after her disappointment over Hillary Clinton failing to win four years ago.
"How any sane, rational normal person would look around at what's happened in the US in the past four years, and think, 'I want another four years of this', I don't understand," she said.
"No matter who wins, the country is still going to be divided."
However, Evan Manning, 31, from Pennsylvania, who has been in Sydney for almost four years, and makes a podcast about US politics, wants to see the current President triumph.
The account manager admits while he can have a "harsh demeanor", he thinks Trump's lack of political background actually makes him the best leader.
"I think from his first four years he's shown he gets things done," he said.
Another Trump voter, mother-of-five Tara Moore, is from California but now runs a fitness studio in Sydney.
The 37-year-old said she's voting for the policies, rather than the person.
"It's not about Trump, it goes down to what affects my kids, my dad, my family, my paycheck," she said.
"That's the biggest thing Trumps stands for, having your rights and freedoms protected.
"I feel like he's going to get the economy really back and going and treat coronavirus with the respect it deserves, but also without causing any further damage."
Ms Moore believes he'll be re-elected, which for her, she says, will be a relief.
Contact journalist Sarah Swain: Sswain@nine.com.au
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