S.Amdt. 365

SA 365. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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 appropriate place in title V, insert the following:

SEC. ____. STUDY ON TWO-WAY MILITARY BALLOT BARCODE TRACKING.

(a) Study.--The Director of the Federal Voting Assistance
Program of the Department of Defense shall conduct a study on
the feasibility of a pilot program providing full ballot
tracking of overseas military absentee ballots through the
mail stream in a manner that is similar to the 2016 Military
Ballot Tracking Pilot Program conducted by the Federal Voting
Assistance Program.
(b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Voting
Assistance Program shall submit to Congress a report on the
results of the study conducted under subsection (a). Such
report shall include--
(1) an estimate of the costs and requirements needed to
conduct the pilot program described in subsection (a);
(2) a description of organizations that would provide
substantial support for such a pilot program; and
(3) a time line for the phased implementation of the pilot
program to all military personnel actively serving overseas.
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