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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3646 
To direct the Presidential designee under the Uniformed and Overseas Citi-
zens 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reducing Barriers for 
Military Voters Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROVIDING END-TO-END ELECTRONIC VOTING 
SERVICES FOR ABSENT UNIFORMED SERV-
ICES VOTERS IN LOCATIONS WITH LIMITED 
OR IMMATURE POSTAL SERVICE. 
(a) PLAN.— 
(1) DEVELOPMENT.—In consultation with the 
Chief Information Officer of the Department of De-
fense, the Presidential designee under the Uni-
formed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act 
(52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.) shall develop a plan for 
providing end-to-end electronic voting services (in-
cluding services for registering to vote, requesting an 
electronic ballot, completing the ballot, and return-
ing the ballot) in participating States for absent uni-
formed services voters under such Act who are de-
ployed or mobilized to locations with limited or im-
mature postal service (as determined by the Presi-
dential designee). 
(2) SPECIFICATIONS.—The Presidential des-
ignee shall include in the plan developed under para-
graph (1)— 
(A) methods to ensure that voters have the 
opportunity to verify that their ballots are re-
ceived and tabulated correctly by the appro-
priate State and local election officials; 
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(B) methods to generate a verifiable and 
auditable vote trail for the purposes of any re-
count or audit conducted with respect to an 
election; and 
(C) an assessment of whether commercially 
available technologies may be used to carry out 
any of the elements of the plan. 
(3) CONSULTATION
WITH
STATE
AND
LOCAL 
ELECTION
OFFICIALS.—The Presidential designee 
shall develop the plan under paragraph (1) in con-
sultation with appropriate State and local election 
officials to ensure that the plan may be implemented 
successfully in any State which agrees to participate 
in the plan. 
(4) USE OF CONTRACTORS.—To the extent the 
Presidential designee determines to be appropriate, 
the Presidential designee may include in the plan de-
veloped under paragraph (1) provisions for the use 
of contractors to carry out any of the elements of 
the plan. 
(5) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Presi-
dential designee shall submit the plan developed 
under paragraph (1) to the Committees on Armed 
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Services of the House of Representatives and Sen-
ate. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Presidential designee 
shall implement the plan— 
(1) for a trial group of voters in participating 
States for elections for Federal office held in 2024; 
and 
(2) for all such voters in participating States 
for elections for Federal office held in 2026 and any 
succeeding year. 
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