The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) reached every service member “with a ‘dot mil’ email address,” the program’s manager said during a Jan. 25 meeting of advocates for overseas voting. “We not only met, but exceeded, our congressional requirement,” said David Bierne, the FVAP acting director, speaking before the Overseas Vote Foundation and the U.S. Vote Foundation. Congress had directed the FVAP’s overseers with taking steps to foster greater absentee-ballot participation in the 2012 elections, with the passage of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act as a provision of the 2010 defense spending bill. “If there’s any one group of voters that’s familiar with the FVAP, it’s active-duty military,” Beirne said.
