Action | Applications for Registration and Absentee Ballot Request using the FPCA |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/1/2011 |
UOCAVA voters (generally persons in the military, persons who live overseas, and the familites of both) have the obstacles of distance and access to overcome when registering to vote that voters who live in Virginia do not. The proposed regulation would help remove those obstacles by extending the option of registering by electronic means to UOCAVA voters. Unfortunately, the proposed regulation extends the electronic registration to any UOCAVA voter -- those who live or are posted in the US as well as those who live or are posted overseas. This gives the UOCAVA voters who live in the US an advantage not enjoyed by other voters. To mitigate this disparity, it is suggested that the electronic registration be extended only to those UOCAVA voters who live or are posted outside the continental U.S.