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Phone: 396-VOTE (8683)
Location: Soldier Support Center - 3rd Fl.
Normandy Drive, Fort Bragg (map)
Hours: 8 am-5 pm Monday-Friday
Email: stacy.r.williams@us.army.mil
In support of the Services’ voting assistance programs, the Secretary of Defense has designated the week of 31 August thru 7 September 2008 as Armed Forces Voters Week. As part of the continuing efforts to provide voting assistance to our Soldiers and their Families, command emphasis is requested to support this upcoming special week.
It's Your Future. VOTE For It!
BG Jones SMA Preston
Voting Residency Guidelines
Uniformed Services & Family Members: Foremost, you should keep in mind that Uniformed Service personnel and their family members may not arbitrarily choose which state to declare as their legal voting residence without meeting the state's residency requirement. The following are basic guidelines to follow in determining residency for military personnel and their family members:
One must have or have had physical presence in the state and simultaneously the intent to remain or make the state his/her home or domicile.
One may only have one legal residence at a time, but may change residency each time he or she is transferred to a new location. One must make a conscious decision to change residency; it cannot be done accidentally. There must be certain specific actions which may be interpreted as conscious decisions, e.g., registering to vote, registering a car, qualifying for in-state tuition, obtaining a driver's license, etc.
Once residence is changed, a person may not revert to the previous residence without re-establishing new physical presence and intent to remain or return.
"Home of Record" should not be confused with legal residence. "Home of Record" is the address a military member had upon entry into the Service. It does not change. "Home of Record" and legal residence may be the same address, and usually are, when a person enters military service. It can remain so even though the person or his/her relatives no longer live at that location, as long as the military member has not established a legal residence elsewhere after entering on active duty. If a military member changes legal residence after entering on active duty, he/she may not revert to claiming the "Home of Record" as legal residence without re-establishing physical presence and intent to remain in or return to that state.
Family members of active duty military personnel may each have a different legal residence. A spouse does not automatically assume the legal residence of the active duty member upon marriage.
The Voting Assistance Program is on-line at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Commanders are urged to become personally involved and are encouraged to motivate their soldiers to vote.
BE SMART DO YOUR PART VOTE!
Find more information at www.fvap.gov.
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