§ 20301.
(b)
Duties of Presidential designee
The Presidential designee shall—
(1)
consult State and local election officials in carrying out this chapter, and ensure that such officials are aware of the requirements of this Act;
(2)
prescribe an official post card form, containing both an absentee voter registration application and an absentee ballot application, for use by the States as required under
section 20302(a)(4) of this title;
(3)
carry out
section 20303 of this title with respect to the Federal write-in absentee ballot for absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters in general elections for Federal office;
(4)
prescribe a suggested design for absentee ballot mailing envelopes;
(5)
compile and distribute (A) descriptive material on State absentee registration and voting procedures, and (B) to the extent practicable, facts relating to specific elections, including dates, offices involved, and the text of ballot questions;
(6)
not later than the end of each year after a Presidential election year, transmit to the President and the Congress a report on the effectiveness of assistance under this chapter, including a statistical analysis of uniformed services voter participation, a separate statistical analysis of overseas nonmilitary participation, and a description of State-Federal cooperation;
(7)
prescribe a standard oath for use with any document under this chapter affirming that a material misstatement of fact in the completion of such a document may constitute grounds for a conviction for perjury;
(8)
carry out
section 20304 of this title with respect to the collection and delivery of marked absentee ballots of absent overseas uniformed services voters in elections for Federal office;
(9)
to the greatest extent practicable, take such actions as may be necessary—
(A)
to ensure that absent uniformed services voters who cast absentee ballots at locations or facilities under the jurisdiction of the Presidential designee are able to do so in a private and independent manner; and
(B)
to protect the privacy of the contents of absentee ballots cast by absentee uniformed services voters and overseas voters while such ballots are in the possession or control of the Presidential designee;
(11)
working with the Election Assistance Commission and the chief State election official of each State, develop standards—
(A)
for States to report data on the number of absentee ballots transmitted and received under
section 20302(c) of this title and such other data as the Presidential designee determines appropriate; and
(B)
for the Presidential designee to store the data reported.
([Pub. L. 99–410, title I, § 101], Aug. 28, 1986, [100 Stat. 924]; [Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, title XXII, § 2219(c)], Oct. 21, 1998, [112 Stat. 2681–817]; [Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title XVI, § 1606(a)(2)], Dec. 28, 2001, [115 Stat. 1279]; [Pub. L. 107–252, title VII, § 705(a)], (b)(1), (c), Oct. 29, 2002, [116 Stat. 1724], 1725; [Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title V, § 566(a)], Oct. 28, 2004, [118 Stat. 1919]; [Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title V], §§ 580(b), (e), 583(a)(2), 584(a), 585(b)(1), Oct. 28, 2009, [123 Stat. 2325], 2328, 2330, 2331; [Pub. L. 111–383, div. A, title X, § 1075(d)(4)], (5), Jan. 7, 2011, [124 Stat. 4372].)