Counting All Military Votes Act

Counting All Military Votes Act

This bill requires the Department of Defense to ensure that absent uniformed services voters who are on active duty or service at diplomatic and consular posts of the United States are able to receive and transmit balloting materials in the same manner (i.e., through express mail) as absent uniformed services voters who are on active duty or service at military installations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5840 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5840

  To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to 
ensure that absent uniformed services voters serving at diplomatic and 
 consular posts of the United States are able to receive and transmit 
  balloting materials in the same manner and with the same rights and 
 protections as other absent uniformed services voters under such Act, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2020

  Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois (for himself, Mr. Bost, Mr. Cook, Mr. 
Zeldin, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Wittman, Ms. Stefanik, 
    Mr. Bacon, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Walker, Mr. Pence, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. 
  Thornberry, Mr. Mast, Mr. Turner, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Kinzinger, Mr. 
  Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. McCaul, Ms. Cheney, Mr. 
 David P. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. Loudermilk, and Mr. Hudson) introduced 
   the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to 
ensure that absent uniformed services voters serving at diplomatic and 
 consular posts of the United States are able to receive and transmit 
  balloting materials in the same manner and with the same rights and 
 protections as other absent uniformed services voters under such Act, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Counting All Military Votes Act''.

SEC. 2. ABILITY OF ABSENT UNIFORMED SERVICES VOTERS SERVING AT 
              DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS TO RECEIVE AND TRANSMIT 
              BALLOTING MATERIALS.

    (a) Ensuring Ability.--
            (1) In general.--Section 101(b) of the Uniformed and 
        Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (52 U.S.C. 20301(b)) is 
        amended--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (10);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
                (11) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(12) take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that 
        an absent uniformed services voter who is absent from the 
        United States by reason of active duty or service at a 
        diplomatic and consular post of the United States is able to 
        receive and transmit balloting materials in the same manner and 
        with the same rights and protections as an absent uniformed 
        services voter who is absent from the United States by reason 
        of active duty or service at a military installation.''.
            (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
        shall apply with respect to elections held on or after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Clarification of Treatment as Absent Uniformed Services 
Voters.--Section 107(1)(A) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 20310(1)(A)) is 
amended by striking ``active duty'' and inserting ``active duty 
(including active duty or service at a diplomatic and consular post of 
the United States)''.
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