March 30, 2018
DoD Voting Assistance Programs for Calendar Year 2017 DODIG-2018-093
In accordance with 10 U.S.C. § 1566, our objective was to determine whether voting assistance programs were effective; the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps complied with their respective Service’s voting assistance programs. We also established a self-initiated objective to determine whether DoD Agencies complied with applicable requirements of DoD Instruction (DoDI) 1000.04, “Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP),” September 13, 2012 (as modified by Change 1, effective December 1, 2017). Specifically, we sought to determine whether DoD Agencies complied with the Instruction’s requirement that all DoD Components “develop written voting-related policies to support all eligible uniformed services personnel and their family members, including those in deployed, dispersed, and tenant organizations.”