Provisions from Congressman Kevin McCarthy\'s Military Voting Protection Act [MVP], a bipartisan bill geared to reform the military voting system in the United States, were recently signed into law.

Language from the bill, now more than a year after first being introduced, was included in the National Defense Authorization Act to help ensure that completed absentee ballots from military personnel serving abroad are returned to election offices in time to be counted.

The act would help ensure overseas military absentee ballots are delivered to the appropriate state election officials by the statutory deadline, reduce delays in the absentee voting system currently in place for overseas troops and provide for the express shipping of completed absentee ballots with in-transit tracking, according to McCarthy\'s office.

McCarthy said in a statement that after more than a year of \"fighting to make this common sense reform become law\" that he was glad that the legislation was finally signed into law to help United States troops vote.

\"This is a strong step forward....

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