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Title 52 — Voting and ElectionsRelease 119-73not60

§20305 Federal Voting Assistance Program Improvements

Title 52 › Subtitle 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 Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President’s appointee must create online information pages and set up a notice program to help absent uniformed services voters with voter registration and absentee ballot steps for Federal elections. They must tell those voters about the Federal Post Card Application and the Federal Write‑In Absentee Ballot, and use the military Global Network to send notices 90, 60, and 30 days before each Federal election. The appointee still must follow Department of Defense rules that do not conflict, including DoD Directive 1000.04. Congress may provide whatever money is needed to the Federal Voting Assistance Program in the Department of Defense (or its successor) to carry out this work.

Full Legal Text

Title 52, §20305

Voting and Elections — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)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)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)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.

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Citation

52 U.S.C. § 20305

Title 52 — Voting and Elections

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60