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Title 52, Voting and ElectionsRelease 119-110

§20305 Federal Voting Assistance Program Improvements

Title 52 › Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration › CHAPTER 203 — REGISTRATION AND VOTING BY ABSENT UNIFORMED SERVICES VOTERS AND OVERSEAS VOTERS IN ELECTIONS FOR FEDERAL OFFICE › § 20305

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President’s chosen official must create online portals with clear info for absent uniformed services voters about how to register and how to get and return absentee ballots for Federal elections. That official must also run a program that uses the military Global Network to tell those voters about registration, the Federal Postcard Application, and the Federal write‑in absentee ballot 90, 60, and 30 days before each Federal election. This does not remove any other duties under Department of Defense rules, including DoD Directive 1000.04, as long as those rules do not conflict. Congress may provide whatever sums are necessary to the Department of Defense’s Federal Voting Assistance Program to carry out these duties.

Full Legal Text

Title 52, §20305

Voting and Elections, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Duties
The Presidential designee shall carry out the following duties:
(1)Develop online portals of information to inform absent uniformed services voters regarding voter registration procedures and absentee ballot procedures to be used by such voters with respect to elections for Federal office.
(2)Establish a program to notify absent uniformed services voters of voter registration information and resources, the availability of the Federal postcard application, and the availability of the Federal write-in absentee ballot on the military Global Network, and shall use the military Global Network to notify absent uniformed services voters of the foregoing 90, 60, and 30 days prior to each election for Federal office.
(b)Clarification regarding other duties and obligations
Nothing in this section shall relieve the Presidential designee of their duties and obligations under any directives or regulations issued by the Department of Defense, including the Department of Defense Directive 1000.04 (or any successor directive or regulation) that is not inconsistent or contradictory to the provisions of this section.
(c)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Federal Voting Assistance Program of the Department of Defense (or a successor program) such sums as are necessary for purposes of carrying out this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1973ff–2b of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2010 and each succeeding election for Federal office, see section 583(a)(3) of Pub. L. 111–84, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2009 Amendment note under section 20301 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

52 U.S.C. § 20305

Title 52, Voting and Elections

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110