Bill to Ease Absentee Voting

Week of October 26, 2009

Stars and Stripes is reporting that U.S. troops and other American voters overseas will get more time to send in their ballots and more electronic access to voting forms under legislation passed by Congress. The bill, called the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, aims to remove some of the hurdles that have caused thousands of overseas ballots to be lost or uncounted in past elections. Read the full article.