To provide for the modernization of the Department of Defense's mail delivery system to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of absentee ballots.

SA 3278. Mr. BLUNT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3254, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1084. MODERNIZATION OF ABSENTEE BALLOT MAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense should modernize its mail delivery system to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of absentee ballots, including through the establishment of a centralized mail forwarding system to ensure that blank ballots are properly redirected.

(b) Transfer of Funds.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under section 201 for research, development, test, and evaluation and available for the Federal Voting Assistance Program, $3,000,000 shall be transferred to the United States Postal Service not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act for purposes of implementing the modernization of the Department of Defense's mail delivery system for the purposes set forth in subsection (a).