Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act

Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act

Long title	An Act to consolidate and improve provisions of law relating to absentee registration and voting in elections for Federal office by members of uniformed services and persons who reside overseas.
Nicknames	Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986
Enacted by	the 99th United States Congress
Effective	August 28, 1986
Citations
Public law	99-410
Statutes at Large	100 Stat. 924
Codification
Titles amended	42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare transferred to 52 U.S.C.: Voting and Elections
U.S.C. sections created	42 U.S.C. ch. 20, subch. I-G § 1973ff et seq. transferred to 52 U.S.C. §§ 20301–20311
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 4393 by Al Swift (D–WA) on March 12, 1986 Committee consideration by House Administration Passed the House on August 12, 1986 (Passed Voice Vote) Passed the Senate on August 16, 1986 (Passed Voice Vote) Signed into law by President Ronald W. Reagan on August 28, 1986

The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), P.L. 99-410, 4 U.S.C. §§ 1973ff–1973ff-6, 39 U.S.C. § 3406, 18 U.S.C. §§ 608–609, is a United States federal law dealing with elections and voting rights for United States citizens residing overseas. The act requires that all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands allow certain U.S. citizens to register to vote and to vote by absentee ballot in federal elections. The act is Public Law 99-410 and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on August 28, 1986.

Groups of people covered under the act are:

The act provides for an emergency back-up ballot, the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB), which can be cast by voters who "have made a timely application for but have not received their regular ballot from the state or territory, subject to certain conditions."

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