Federal Post Card Application
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Federal Voting Assistance Program U.S. Department of Defense
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The Federal Post Card Application (FPCA), also known as Standard Form 76 (SF 76), is a postage-free postcard, printed and distributed by the FVAP for use by absentee voters covered by UOCAVA. Every election year, the FVAP has a minimum of eight million FPCAs in worldwide distribution, serving the more than six million U.S. citizens covered by UOCAVA.
In order to register, and/or vote absentee, an eligible UOCAVA citizen must carefully, and accurately, complete an FPCA.
Federal law recommends that a single FPCA simultaneously serve all states and territories as both a registration form and application for absentee ballot. The extent and manner of its use, however, is determined by state and territorial law and sometimes by local procedure. Because of varying state and territorial procedures, citizens must refer to the appropriate state or territorial section of the Voting Assistance Guide to determine how he or she must complete the FPCA. The FVAP's Voting Assistance Officer training presentation also provides step-by-step instructions for completing the form.
Military and civilian Voting Assistance Officers can obtain supplies of the hardcopy FPCA through their regular distribution channels or by contacting the Service or State Department Voting Action Officer. Other overseas citizens may obtain supplies of the FPCA by contacting the FVAP directly at vote@fvap.ncr.gov.
FVAP has created an fillable and savable version of the FPCA. This version of the form requires Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7 or later. All states and territories except American Samoa and Guam permit the use of this version of the FPCA.
If double-clicking the above link does not open the form, please highlight the link, right click and choose "Save Target as" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Firefox) to save the form onto your computer.
Warning when using Shared Computers:
A public (or shared) computer is any computer used by someone other than you. For example computers at Internet cafes, libraries, schools, shopping centers, hotels, airports, your friend's house even your roommate's or shared work computers.
The computer may save some of your personal data in temporary files. Please check the browser's help file to determine how to delete any private data that has been stored during your session.
More detailed information about the FPCA form itself is available at www.fvap.gov/pubs/vag/appendix_f.pdf.
A postage-paid return envelope template for the online version of the FPCA is available at www.fvap.gov/pubs/returnenvelope.html.
Last updated/reviewed: January 22, 2008