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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 58 (Monday, March 26, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17460-17461]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7071]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

[Docket ID DoD-2012-OS-0038]

Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and 
Readiness), DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense 
(Personnel and Readiness) announces the following proposed public 
information collection and seeks public comment on the provisions 
thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection 
of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions 
of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden of the 
proposed information collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways 
to minimize the burden of the information collection on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

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DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by May 25, 
2012.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Federal Docket Management System Office, 4800 Mark 
Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350-3100.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency 
name, docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The 
general policy for comments and other submissions from members of the 
public is to make these submissions available for public viewing on the 
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without 
change, including any personal identifiers or contact information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this 
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and 
associated collection instruments, please write to the Defense Manpower 
Data Center (DMDC) ATTN: Ms. Kristin Williams, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 
Ste 04E25, Alexandria, VA, 22350, or call at (571) 372-1102.
    Title, Associated Form, and OMB Control Number: The 2012 Post-
Election Survey of State and Local Election Officials; OMB Control 
Number 0704-0125.
    Needs and Uses: The information collection requirement is necessary 
to fulfill the mandate of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee 
Voting Act (UOCAVA of 1986 [42 U.S.C. 1973ff]). UOCAVA requires a 
statistical analysis report to the President and Congress on the 
effectiveness of assistance under the Act, a statistical analysis of 
voter participation, and a description of State/Federal cooperation.
    Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal Government.
    Annual Burden Hours: 2,000 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden per Response: 40 minutes.
    Frequency: One time.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection

    UOCAVA requires the States to allow Uniformed Services personnel, 
their family members, and overseas citizens to use absentee 
registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in general, 
special, primary, and runoff elections for Federal offices. The Act 
covers members of the Uniformed Services and the merchant marine to 
include the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration and Public Health Service and their eligible dependents, 
Federal civilian employees overseas, and overseas U.S. citizens not 
affiliated with the Federal Government. Local Election Officials (LEO) 
process voter registration and absentee ballot applications, send 
absentee ballots to voters, and receive and process the voted ballots 
in counties, cities, parishes, townships and other jurisdictions within 
the U.S. LEOs, independently and in relation to their respective State 
election officicals, are often one of the most important pieces in the 
absentee voting process for UOCAVA citizens. The Federal Voting 
Assistance Program (FVAP) conducts the post-election survey of State 
and Local Election Officials to determine participation rates that are 
representative of all citizens covered by the Act, to measure State-
Federal cooperation, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the overall 
absentee voting program. By design, the information collected be both 
quantitative (collected from both the State and Local Election 
Officials) and qualitative (collected from the Local Election 
Officials), and will be used for overall program evaluation, management 
and improvement, and to compile the congressionally-mandated report to 
the President and Congress.

    Dated: March 2, 2012.
Patricia L. Toppings,
OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2012-7071 Filed 3-23-12; 8:45 am]
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