The Federal Voting Assistance Program’s website provides online wizards for the federal postcard application and the federal write-in absentee ballots, and provides voters direct access to their states’ voting systems, said Mr. Bob Carey, FVAP director, during a recent DODLive Bloggers’ Roundtable interview. The site also includes links relevant to the user’s local elecitions.“So if the state has an online voter registration system for military and overseas voters, [voters] can go [to the site] thru FVAP,” he said. “They don’t even have to use our form. If the state has an online ballot delivery system, [the site] will send them directly there. And hopefully it will be seamless, intuitive, quick.”
This website is especially important, since the FVAP 2010 post-election reportshowed that 29% of the military never received their ballots, and 44% of local election officials sent out ballots after the 45-day deadline. On the plus side, there was a 21% increase in military voting, a 27% increase in military voters receiving ballots, and a 24% increase in military voters casting ballots. It also showed broad increases in voter awareness of available voting assistance resources. This is good news, especially considering that the program hopes to roll out some type of eVoting site in the future. read more>>>
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