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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2814 (Introduced in Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for militar... · Sec. 1706

Sec. 1706. Treatment of ballot requests

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Section 104 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act ( 52 U.S.C. 20306 ) is amended— by striking A State may not and inserting
(a); Prohibition of refusal of applications on grounds of early submission .—A State may not by inserting or overseas voter after an absent uniformed services voter ; by striking members of the before uniformed services ; by inserting voters or overseas voters before the period; and by adding at the end the following new subsection: If a State accepts and processes a request for an absentee ballot by an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter and the voter requests that the application be considered an application for an absentee ballot for each subsequent election for Federal office held in the State through the next regularly scheduled general election for Federal office (including any runoff elections which may occur as a result of the outcome of such general election), and any special elections for Federal office held in the State through the calendar year following such general election, the State shall provide an absentee ballot to the voter for each such subsequent election. Paragraph
(1)shall not apply with respect to a voter registered to vote in a State for any election held after the voter notifies the State that the voter no longer wishes to be registered to vote in the State or after the State determines that the voter has registered to vote in another State. . The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: .
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