U.S. Senate Passes Overseas Voters Act

On July 23, the U.S. Senate, by a unanimous voice vote, attached the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act to the Defense Department Authorization Bill. The Voter amendment, which had been S.1415, is now Amendment 1764 to the Defense Department’s budget bill.

The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act requires states to mail overseas absentee ballots at least 45 days before an election. If the voter postmarks them by election day, they must be counted if they arrive no later than 10 days after the election. States are no longer authorized to require that such ballots be notarized. All of these provisions only relate to federal elections, under authority of Article One of the Constitution, which says that Congress can alter state election laws dealing with Congressional elections.


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  1. Independence Party playboy, who now says he is also a Leader of both the Independence Party and Reform Party????

    Din, Suleman
    India Abroad
    08-10-2001

    Bobby Kumar admits he lied about kidnap

    Bobby Kumar, a Long Island community activist and businessman, was arrested
    by Nassau county police August 1 on charges of making false statements
    about his alleged kidnapping.

    Kumar, who came under media focus (India Abroad, July 20, 2001) last month
    after he claimed he was abducted by three unidentified men from a
    restaurant in Syosset, NY, appeared in the First District Court in
    Hempstead on August 2, but was released on his own recognizance and ordered
    back in court on August 20.

    Kumar has been charged with two counts of making a false statement after
    admitting to police the night before that he made up the story of his kidnapping.

    ….. disgraced former GOP power broker Bobby Kumar, who recently returned to the board that operates the Nassau University Medical Center.
    Kumar resigned as board chairman under pressure in May 2001 and a few months later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with the faking of his own kidnapping.

  2. S0000000 — how much earlier WILL be deadlines be for ballot access ???

    How much time and effort does a U.S.A. trooper have to vote while fighting the BARBARIANS in S.W. Asia ???

    How many U.S.A. trooper votes in 1942 and 1944 while fighting the Axis powers BARBARIANS in the front lines during World War II ???

  3. Question: How will the voting in Hawaii be effected by the large group of expats at Red Beach,
    Guadicanal, SI? The lack of a notary was reason
    they did not register to vote.

    Most of these native Hawaiian came from Stewart Atoll which was annexed to Hawaii by the 4th Kamahamaha and included in Hawaii by the 1959
    statehood act.

    Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman,
    American Independent Party

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