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. |
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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 | |
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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."