The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sued the Department of War and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Oct. 1 over the removal of a checkbox from the federal form Americans abroad use to register to vote and request mail ballots.
The lawsuit names the Department of Defense, the department’s legal name. Under a September 2025 executive order, the department also uses Department of War as a secondary title, which appears on its letters to OMB.
The checkbox, which read “I am a U.S. citizen living outside the country, I have never lived in the United States,” was removed from the Federal Post Card Application in late August. The Pentagon asked OMB to approve the change on an emergency basis and to bypass the public comment periods normally required to revise the form….