2009 Evaluation of DoD Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)
Abstract
What We Did: Section 1566, Title 10, United States Code, "Voting assistance: compliance assessments; assistance," as amended, requires that the Inspectors General of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps conduct an annual review of the effectiveness of their voting assistance programs; and an annual review of the compliance with voting assistance programs of that Service. Upon the completion of their annual reviews, each Service Inspector General is required to submit to the DoD Inspector General a report on the results of each review. The statute requires that the DoD Inspector General submit to Congress a report on the effectiveness during the preceding calendar year of voting assistance programs, and the level of compliance during the preceding calendar year with voting assistance programs as reported by each of the Service Inspectors General. We met with each of the Service Inspectors General representatives to discuss their data collection procedures, and criteria used as a basis for the determinations of compliance and effectiveness of their respective voting assistance programs. We reviewed the Federal Voting Assistance Program website and the 2010-2011 Voting Assistance Guide. Also, we reviewed actions taken by the Federal Voting Assistance Program Office to implement certain provisions of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act of 2009 that apply to the November 2010 Federal election. This report consolidates the Service Inspectors General reports, summarizes some of their key facts, and presents the results of our review.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 27, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA546997
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense