FEDERAL WRITE-IN ABSENTEE BALLOT.

SEC. 581. FEDERAL WRITE-IN ABSENTEE BALLOT.(a) Use in General, Special, Primary, and Runoff Elections for Federal Office.—(1) In general.—Section 103 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (42 U.S.C. 1973ff–2) is amended—(A) in subsection (a), by striking “general elections for Federal office” and inserting “general, special, primary, and runoff elections for Federal office”;(B) in subsection (e), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “a general election” and inserting “a general, special, primary, or runoff election for Federal office”; and(C) in subsection (f), by striking “the general election” each place it appears and inserting “the general, special, primary, or runoff election for Federal office”.(2) Effective date.—The amendments made by this subsection shall take effect on December 31, 2010, and apply with respect to elections for Federal office held on or after such date.(b) Promotion and Expansion of Use.—Section 103(a) of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (42 U.S.C. 1973ff–2) is amended—(1) by striking “General.—The Presidential” and inserting “General.—“(1) Federal write-in absentee ballot.—The Presidential”; and(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:“(2) Promotion and expansion of use of federal write-in absentee ballots.—“(A) In general.—Not later than December 31, 2011, the Presidential designee shall adopt procedures to promote and expand the use of the Federal write-in absentee ballot as a back-up measure to vote in elections for Federal office.“(B) Use of technology.—Under such procedures, the Presidential designee shall utilize technology to implement a system under which the absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter may—“(i) enter the address of the voter or other information relevant in the appropriate jurisdiction of the State, and the system will generate a list of all candidates in the election for Federal office in that jurisdiction; and123 STAT. 2327“(ii) submit the marked Federal write-in absentee ballot by printing the ballot (including complete instructions for submitting the marked Federal write-in absentee ballot to the appropriate State election official and the mailing address of the single State office designated under section 102(b)).“(C) Authorization of appropriations.—There are authorized to be appropriated to the Presidential designee such sums as may be necessary to carry out this paragraph.”.