Inhofe Joins Effort To Help Military Voters

Senator Jim Inhofe, a ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is a co-sponsor of the Military Voting Protection Act of 2009 introduced today by Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas).

The legislation attempts to reduce delays in the current absentee voting process for overseas troops by allowing the U.S. Postal Service to express-ship their completed absentee ballots to local election offices.

The bill amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 (UOCAVA) and ensures that the ballots are delivered to the appropriate state election officials by the jurisdiction’s statutory deadline, while safeguarding voter privacy and ballot secrecy.

The bill would apply to all regularly scheduled general elections for federal office, beginning with the November 2010 election.

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