Sec. 4. Requirement for prepaid return envelopes for absentee ballots
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Subtitle A of title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) is amended— by redesignating sections 304 and 305 as sections 305 and 306, respectively; and by inserting after section 303 the following new section: Each State and local jurisdiction shall provide with any voter registration application, absentee ballot application, or blank absentee ballot sent by mail a self-sealing return envelope with prepaid postage or subject to an arrangement whereby the State will reimburse the United States Postal Service for the postage of any such return envelope that is sent by mail.
For purposes of this section, the term State includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The requirements of this section shall apply to materials sent by States and local jurisdictions after the date that is 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. . Section 401 of such Act ( 52 U.S.C. 21111 ), as amended by section 3(b), is amended by inserting 304, after 303, .
The table of contents of such Act is amended— by redesignating the items relating to sections 304 and 305 as relating to sections 305 and 306, respectively; and by inserting after the item relating to section 303 the following new item: Sec. 304. Use of prepaid self-sealing return envelopes. .
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