If you have a phone at all, there are cards you can buy to make cheap international calls by bouncing through a local number. If you don&#x27;t have a phone, well, you&#x27;re stuck, but that&#x27;s hardly characteristic of being abroad, and you&#x27;d have the same trouble from a shack in the mountains in the US.<p>As for caring about your opinion, why would they care any less about you compared to any other voter?