MOAA, Syracuse University, Seek Active Duty Troops for Absentee Voting Survey
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is teaming up with researchers at Syracuse University to study absentee voting challenges that active duty servicemembers face.
Key Points:
- Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is teaming up with researchers at Syracuse University to study absentee voting challenges that active duty servicemembers face each election cycle.
- The nonpartisan survey, conducted by MOAAs charitable foundation, MOAA Military Family Initiative (MMFI), and the universitys Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), will gather information from active duty servicemembers to study this select groups perceptions of the voting and absentee voting processes.
- In 2016, through a project funded by the Democracy Fund, MMFI conducted an outreach campaign to inform and educate military families about absentee voting.
- Project outcomes suggested a need to better understand these families perceptions and understanding of the absentee voting process and use those findings to help increase military family participation in the voting process.