Please get this out to your deployed friends overseas, we missed our chance to vote in 2006 while deployed in Kosovo, glad to see the Guard is doing something to improve that broken process.
-Nick
Servicemember voting laws reflect changes
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
One of the bigger changes in the process is that military votersmust send in a federal postcard application – again available at www.fvap.gov -- as soon as possible. "The law has changed and even if they have been getting their absentee ballot automatically they have to register each and every year," Carey pointed out.
Servicemembers also must submit a postcard application each time they move, each time they deploy and each time they redeploy."We're encouraging everyone by Jan. 15 to send in a new federal postcard application," Carey said. Local election officials, he said, are more than happy to deliver balloting materials, but they have to know whereto send them.
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