The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) was never meant to include never-resided U.S. citizens.
The Trump Administration has just tweaked the form used by overseas military voters; a little move that will prevent thousands of people who have never lived in the United States from improperly voting in U.S. elections.
Anyone studying election integrity knows there is not a single, clean solution to the pernicious movement that aims to control election outcomes. Politicians, bureaucrats, and activist groups have, for years, quietly changed seemingly minor details and policies, leaving voting systems intentionally vulnerable to corruption.
The cure for their attempted death-by-a-thousand-cuts is a thousand strategically placed band-aids—small policy changes that heal the system and, together, strengthen election security. That is exactly what the Department of War (DOW) did in a recent request to change the wording on the Federal Post Card Application used overseas to register to vote and request an absentee ballot.
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