SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING MILITARY VOTING RIGHTS.

SEC. 1086. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING MILITARY VOTING RIGHTS. (a) Findings.—Congress finds that— (1) members of the Armed Forces have a fundamental right to vote in Federal, State, and local elections; and (2) an extended absence of a member of the Armed Forces from the place of the member’s residency or domicile due to military or naval orders is not of itself grounds to consider the member’s residency or domicile as lost or changed. (b) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Attorney General, should review how best to protect the right of members of the Armed Forces to vote in Federal, State, and local elections while taking into account the right of States to prescribe requirements for voter registration. Such a review should include an assessment of challenges to military voting rights and consideration of possible legislative remedies to ensure that, for purposes of voting in Federal, State, and local elections, a member of the Armed Forces who is absent from a State in compliance with military or naval orders is not, solely by reason of that absence, considered to have lost or changed residency or domicile.