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Is that significant?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of military and overseas voters who have downloaded voting forms from\u00a0DoD&#8217;s voting assistance website has decreased by 18 percent compared to the 2012 presidential election, according to Defense Department officials.\u00a0<br\/><br\/>Officials aren&#8217;t sure what to make of that drop-off, and whether it represents a trend in this year&#8217;s voting among the military and overseas citizens communities. It may be related to more online voting options from the states &#8212;\u00a0allowing\u00a0voters to register and request ballots online directly\u00a0from local election officials.<br\/><br\/>All year,\u00a0DoD and service officials have been publicizing the resources available to help\u00a0service members and families register to vote and request an absentee ballot. Voters can go directly to their local election officials, and DoD&#8217;s\u00a0Voting Assistance Program site, <a class=\"\" href=\"FVAP.gov\" title=\"Link: FVAP.gov\">FVAP.gov<\/a>,\u00a0can help direct voters to the right place. Or, voters can use the Federal Post Card Application, which is available at FVAP.gov or from unit voting assistance officers or\u00a0installation voting assistance offices.<br\/><br\/>Within two weeks, the message to troops and families will change, urging voters to return their absentee ballots. Officials will\u00a0also tell voters that if they haven&#8217;t received their state absentee ballot by 30 days before the election, they should use the backup Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot. Election Day is Nov. 8.<br\/><br\/>As of\u00a0\u00a0Sept. 1, absentee ballots of overseas military members and family members are given special treatment. Overseas military postal clerks attach the Express Mail Service label 11-DoD, which expedites delivery to local election officials. The label also allows the voter \u00a0to track the\u00a0ballot until final delivery to local election officials.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials have sent out monthly emails to active-duty members as one part of their outreach effort. And for the first time, FVAP has been conducting a direct mail campaign, sending voting\u00a0reminder mailings to active-duty members; another mailing scheduled for Sept. 22. Mailings to known addresses of military spouses were sent Sept. 2, with another scheduled for Sept. 15. Overseas citizens mailings were sent Aug. 30, with another scheduled for Sept. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My layman\u2019s assessment is that an 18 percent drop is a fairly significant drop by any standard,&#8221; said Mike Turner, executive director of the Military Officers Association\u2019s Military Family Initiative. &#8220;This is just as engaging an election as 2012 was.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it\u2019s not clear whether the 18 percent\u00a0reduction is significant, said Katherine Roddy, a spokeswoman for the DoD Federal Voting Assistance Program.\u00a0After the election, when FVAP does a survey of military members and spouses, it will be able to gain insight into their voting patterns, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are also fewer active-duty personnel in 2016 than there were in 2012, and fewer deployed personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1076\" height=\"597\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/instagram-image-from-fvap.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/instagram-image-from-fvap.jpg.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/instagram-image-from-fvap.jpg.jpg?resize=300,166 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/instagram-image-from-fvap.jpg.jpg?resize=768,426 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/instagram-image-from-fvap.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,568 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1076px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Instagram is one tool the Federal Voter Assistance Program is using to publicize its services.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Photo Credit: FVAP via Instagram<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Downloading the FPCA from the FVAP.gov site is just one way military and overseas voters register to vote and get their absentee ballot. Some statistics show an increase in the use of the state or local forms for requesting a ballot. In\u00a02014, 44 percent of active-duty members responding to a question in the Defense Manpower Data Center post-election survey said they used a state or local form to request an absentee ballot, and 30 percent used the FPCA. That&#8217;s a turnaround from 2012, when 46 percent said they used the FCPA and 40 percent used a state or local form to request a ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Overall, the FPCA downloads for this year feel like an incomplete picture of what\u2019s happening, or where voters might be going to request their absentee ballots,&#8221; said Stacey Scholl, elections program associate for the Democracy Fund. &#8220;Democracy Fund is hopeful that states will continue to innovate and provide resources for their voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pace is also likely to pick up. By the end of the election cycle in 2012, about 883,000 FPCAs were downloaded, compared to 317,844 from Jan. 1 through Aug. 25, 2012. Through Aug. 27 this year, there were 261,181 FCPA downloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, FVAP, Military Postal Service Agency, U.S. Postal Service Agency and six local election jurisdictions are conducting a pilot program that will test full tracking of the life of a ballot &#8212; from the time it leaves the local election office, through delivery to the military voter, and back to the local election office. It will track ballots through both the domestic postal system and the military postal system. &#8220;It will enable increased customer service for voters and will provide valuable research data to help identify areas for improvement,&#8221; said Roddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Military Ballot Tracking Pilot ballots will be shipped as parcels using Priority Mail, by no later than Sept. 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s 45 days before the election, and by law, all absentee ballots must be sent by that date to all military members, military family members and overseas citizens who have requested a ballot from their local election officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number has decreased by 18 percent compared to the 2012 presidential election, according to Defense Department officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":12,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3302],"class_list":["post-43959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"XQ7BVX37NNB3LHJVJ6EMWJY4CE","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/2016\/09\/09\/dod-s-voter-assistance-website-gets-fewer-downloads-is-that-significant\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DoD&#039;s voter assistance website gets fewer downloads. 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