USE OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FACILITIES AS POLLING PLACES.

SEC. 1607. USE OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FACILITIES AS POLLING PLACES. (a) Use of Military Facilities.—Section 2670 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(b) Use of Certain Facilities as Polling Places.—(1) Notwithstanding chapter 29 of title 18 (including sections 592 and 593 of such title) or any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department may not (except as provided in paragraph (3)) prohibit the designation or use of a qualifying facility under the jurisdiction of the Secretary as an official polling place for local, State, or Federal elections. “(2) A Department of Defense facility is a qualifying facility for purposes of this subsection if as of December 31, 2000— “(A) the facility is designated as an official polling place by a State or local election official; or “(B) the facility has been used as such an official polling place since January 1, 1996. 115 STAT. 1280 “(3) The limitation in paragraph (1) may be waived by the Secretary of Defense or Secretary of the military department concerned with respect to a particular Department of Defense facility if the Secretary of Defense or Secretary concerned determines that local security conditions require prohibition of the designation or use of that facility as an official polling place for any election.”. (b) Conforming and Clerical Amendments.—(1) Such section is further amended— (A) by striking “Under” and inserting “(a) Use by Red Cross.—Under”; and (B) by striking “this section” and inserting “this subsection”. (2) The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: “§ 2670. Military installations: use by American National Red Cross; use as polling places”. (3) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 159 of such title is amended to read as follows: “2670. Military installations: use by American National Red Cross; use as polling places.”.