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Ciirrent information for States^

C c operation of Gov't, officials.

Federal post card application.

PUBLIC LAW 296-AUG. 9, 1955

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tistical data relating to absentee voting, and such other information as the Presidential designee may consider appropriate. SEC. 202. The Presidential designee shall request, annually or more often when appropriate, each State to furnish him with current absentee voting information for such State. Such information shall include election dates, officers to be elected, constitutional amendments, and other proposals to be voted on, absentee registration and voting procedures, and other relevant data. As soon as possible after receipt of such information, he shall furnish it to the departments and agencies of the executive branch affected by this Act. Such departments and agencies are authorized to reprint and distribute such information to the extent necessary. SEC. 203. All Government officials shall, to the extent practicable and compatible with their primary responsibilities, cooperate with the Presidential designee in carrying out the purposes of this Act. All such officials shall, as far as practicable, take all reasonable measures to expedite, transmit, deliver, and return post cards, ballots, envelopes, and instructions for voting procedures mailed to or by persons to whom this Act is applicable. In addition, and as requested by the Presidential designee, it shall be the duty of— (1) the Attorney General to cooperate and advise with the Council of State Governments in the formulation of drafts of State legislation designed to implement the recommendations for State action contained in this Act; (2) the Administrator of General Services to cause to be printed and distributed post cards for use in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Such post cards shall, wherever practicable and compatible with other operations, be made available by the department or agency concerned to persons to Avhom this Act is applicable for use at any general election at which electors for President and Vice President or Senators and Representatives are to be voted for. For use in such elections post cards shall be made available outside the territorial limits of the United States not later than August 15 prior to the election and within the territorial limits of the United States not later than September 15 prior to the election. To the extent practicable and compatible with other operations, post cards shall also be made available at appropriate times to such persons for use in other general, primary, and special elections; and (3) the Postmaster General and the heads of the departments and agencies concerned, where practicable and compatible with their operations, to facilitate the transmission of balloting material to and from persons to whom this Act is applicable. Ballots executed outside the United States by persons to whom this Act is applicable shall be returned by priority airmail wherever practicable, and such mail may be segregated from other forms of mail and placed in special bags marked with special tags printed and distributed by the Postmaster General for this purpose. SEC. 204. The form of the Federal post card application shall be as follows: (a) The cards shall be approximately nine and one-half by four and one-eighth inches in size. (b) Upon one side, perpendicular to the long dimension of the card, there shall be printed in black type the following:

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