[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 62 (Monday, April 1, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19466-19467]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07485]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
[Docket ID DoD-2013-OS-0061]
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and
Readiness (OUSD(P&R)), Federal Voting Assistance Program, DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
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In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel
and Readiness announces a proposed public information collection and
seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. Comments are invited
on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy
of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed information
collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of
the information collection on respondents, including through the use of
automated collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by May 31,
2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number and
title, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Federal Docket Management System Office, 4800 Mark
Center Drive, East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, VA 22350-3100.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency
name, docket number and title for this Federal Register document. The
general policy for comments and other submissions from members of the
public is to make these submissions available for public viewing on the
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov as they are received without
change, including any personal identifiers or contact information.
Any associated form(s) for this collection may be located within
this same electronic docket and downloaded for review/testing. Follow
the instructions at http://www.regulations.gov for submitting comments.
Please submit comments on any given form identified by docket number,
form number, and title.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on this
proposed information collection or to obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instruments, please write to the Director,
Federal Voting Assistance Program, ATTN: Kathleen McDonnell, 4800 Mark
Center Drive, Mailbox 10, Alexandria, Virginia 22350-5000, or call 571-
372-1168.
Title; Associated Form; and OMB Number: Federal Post Card
Application (FPCA), Standard Form 76 (SF-76); OMB Control Number 0704-
TBD.
Needs and Uses: The information collection requirement is necessary
to fulfill the requirement of the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee
Voting Act (UOCAVA), 46 U.S.C. 1973ff wherein the Secretary of Defense
is to prescribe an official postcard form, containing an absentee voter
registration application and an absentee ballot request application for
use by the States.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households: Uniformed Services
members, eligible family members, U.S. citizens residing outside the
U.S.
Annual Burden Hours: 300,000.
Number of Respondents: 1,200,000.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Average Burden per Response: 15 minutes.
Frequency: On occasion.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Summary of Information Collection
Respondents are UOCAVA citizens who desire to apply for voter
registration and/or request an absentee ballot from their state of
residency. The information provided by these citizens is used by the
states to determine if the citizen is a resident of a jurisdiction
within that state, and therefore eligible to vote within that
jurisdiction and to provide absentee ballots to these citizens for
Federal elections held within each calendar year. This form is mandated
by 42 U.S.C. 1973ff. The Department of Defense does not receive,
collect nor maintain any data provided on the form by these citizens;
this data is collected and maintained by the individual states. The
burden in the collection of this data resides in the individual States.
If the form is not provided, UOCAVA citizens may not be able to
register to vote in their State of residency nor be able to request
absentee ballots and thus may be disenfranchised from their right as a
U.S. citizen to participate in the electoral process. The previous
Federal Post Card Application is the edition dated 08-2011. The form
has been
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updated for usability and consistency. The most significant changes on
the form are as follows: Block 1 classification has been clarified to
include activated National Guard members on State orders and U.S.
citizens who have never resided in the United States. These individuals
had previously been listed as U.S. citizens otherwise granted military/
overseas voting rights. The overseas citizen selection previously
described as ``I am a U.S. citizen residing outside the U.S., and I do
not intend to return'' has been reworded for citizens who are unsure of
their future plans or are hesitant to sign that they do not intend to
return to the country. The intent-to-return language remains on the
form due to the October 2008 National Association Secretaries of State
(NASS) Survey of State Statues that shows the majority of States have
intent as a prerequisite for obtaining a State ballot. Block 7 has been
reworded back to the 2005 FPCA language of ``my voting residence
address'' to ensure military voters with more than one potential U.S.
address are not registering in the wrong jurisdiction. Block 8 has been
reworded to ``where to send my ballot'' to ensure voters are using
their mailing address and not their U.S. voting address. The
Affirmation has been modified so that voters do not have to reaffirm
information already found on the form. The signature block has been
highlighted and the text previously found on the signature and date
lines has been moved below it so local election officials can easily
read signatures and dates. The Agency Disclosure Statement has been
added to the instruction page of the form as per OMB guidance.
Dated: March 25, 2013.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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