TO THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM ROCCO C. SICILIANO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000400170033-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2003
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: April 14, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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April 14, 1958
TO THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES:
The following policy relating to excusing employees for voting has
been approved, and supersedes that issued on October 30, 1953.
asofar as practicable, without interfering seriously with operations,
employees who desire to vote or register in any election or in refer-
endums on a civic matter in their community shall be excused for a
reasonable time for that purpose, as follows:
1. As a general rule, where the polls are not open at
least three hours either before or after an employee's
regular hours of work he may be granted an amount
of excused leave which will permit him to report for
work three hours after the polls open or leave work
three hours before the polls close, whichever requires
the lesser amount of time off.
2. Under exceptional circumstances where the general
rule does not permit sufficient time, an employee may
be excused for such additional time as may be needed
to enable him to vote, depending upon the particular
circumstances in his individual case, but not to ex-
ceed a full day.
3. If an employee's votir_; place is beyond normal com-
muting distance and vote by absentee ballot is not per-
mitted, the employee may be granted sufficient time
off in order to be able to make the trip to the voting
place to cast his ballot. Where more than one day is
required to make the trip to the voting place, agencies
shall observe a liberal policy in granting the necessary
leave for this purpose. Time off in excess of one day
shall be charged to annual leave or if annual leave is
exhausted, then to leave without pay.
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4. For employees who vote in jurisdictions which require
registration in person, time off to register may be
granted on substantially the same basis as for voting,
except that no such time shall be granted if registra-
tion can be accomplished on a nonwork day and the
place of registration is within reasonable one-day,
round-trip travel distance of the employee's place of
residence.
It is recommended that the head of each Department and Agency instruct
all installations under their jurisdiction to assemble necessary infor-
mation about hours during which polls are open in all political sub-
divisions in which their employees reside, and make an administrative
determination regarding the amount of excused leave that may be granted.
Each installation should notify its employees of the determination made
and the local procedure to be followed.
By direction of the President:
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Rocco C. Siciliano
Special Assistant to the President
for Personnel Management
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THE W_? ; E HOUSE
WAS r ! NGTON
October 28, 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND
The President wishes that all Federal employees be urged to
exercise their right and responsibility as citizens to vote
in the forthcoming general election, November 8. Employees
will be granted voting leave in accordance with established
policy as outlined in the April l4-, 1958 memorandum to the
heads of executive departments and agencies from the Special
Assistant to the President for Personnel Management, copy
attached.
Please remind the heads of installations and activities
throughout your agency that employees must be notified as
to how the voting leave policy applies within each instal-
lation or activity. Care should be taken to insure that
employees who commute from considerable distances are given
sufficient time to vote either before coming to work or after
returning home.
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Robert E. Kint
ner
Special Assistant to the President
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