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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3646 

To direct the Presidential designee under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to develop and implement a plan to provide 

end-to-end electronic voting services for absent uniformed services voters 

under such Act who are deployed or mobilized to locations with limited 

or immature postal service. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 28, 2021 

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. RYAN, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. 

KIM of New Jersey, Mr. TURNER, Mr. VELA, Mr. JACKSON, Mr. BROWN, 

and Mr. TIMMONS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 

the Committee on House Administration 

A BILL 

To direct the Presidential designee under the Uniformed 

and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to develop 

and implement a plan to provide end-to-end electronic 

voting services for absent uniformed services voters under 

such Act who are deployed or mobilized to locations 

with limited or immature postal service. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reducing Barriers for 

5 Military Voters Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROVIDING END-TO-END ELECTRONIC VOTING 

2 SERVICES FOR ABSENT UNIFORMED SERV3 ICES VOTERS IN LOCATIONS WITH LIMITED 

4 OR IMMATURE POSTAL SERVICE. 

5 (a) PLAN.— 

6 (1) DEVELOPMENT.—In consultation with the 

7 Chief Information Officer of the Department of De8 fense, the Presidential designee under the Uni9 formed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act 

10 (52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.) shall develop a plan for 

11 providing end-to-end electronic voting services (in12 cluding services for registering to vote, requesting an 

13 electronic ballot, completing the ballot, and return14 ing the ballot) in participating States for absent uni15 formed services voters under such Act who are de16 ployed or mobilized to locations with limited or im17 mature postal service (as determined by the Presi18 dential designee). 

19 (2) SPECIFICATIONS.—The Presidential des20 ignee shall include in the plan developed under para21 graph (1)— 

22 (A) methods to ensure that voters have the 

23 opportunity to verify that their ballots are re24 ceived and tabulated correctly by the appro25 priate State and local election officials; 


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1 (B) methods to generate a verifiable and 

2 auditable vote trail for the purposes of any re3 count or audit conducted with respect to an 

4 election; and 

5 (C) an assessment of whether commercially 

6 available technologies may be used to carry out 

7 any of the elements of the plan. 

8 (3) CONSULTATION WITH STATE AND LOCAL

9 ELECTION OFFICIALS.—The Presidential designee 

10 shall develop the plan under paragraph (1) in con11 sultation with appropriate State and local election 

12 officials to ensure that the plan may be implemented 

13 successfully in any State which agrees to participate 

14 in the plan. 

15 (4) USE OF CONTRACTORS.—To the extent the 

16 Presidential designee determines to be appropriate, 

17 the Presidential designee may include in the plan de18 veloped under paragraph (1) provisions for the use 

19 of contractors to carry out any of the elements of 

20 the plan. 

21 (5) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 1 year after 

22 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Presi23 dential designee shall submit the plan developed 

24 under paragraph (1) to the Committees on Armed 


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1 Services of the House of Representatives and Sen2 ate. 

3 (b) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Presidential designee 

4 shall implement the plan— 

5 (1) for a trial group of voters in participating 

6 States for elections for Federal office held in 2024; 

7 and 

8 (2) for all such voters in participating States 

9 for elections for Federal office held in 2026 and any 

10 succeeding year. 

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