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Military and Family Readiness Center

What's the Military & Family Readiness Center Mission?
To provide targeted Airmen and Family support and services, contributing to the mission readiness, resiliency and well-being of the Air Force community.

Phone: (405) 739-2747
Mon-Fri: 7:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Closed Holidays & AFMC Family Days

The M&FRC provides services in several areas:
- Information, Referral and follow-up
- Coordination and consultation with other base and civilian agencies to strengthen base policies and programs, all in effort to benefit Air Force families.
- Assistance for base leadership in their efforts to meet family needs.

Who is eligible?
- Active Duty Military members and their family members.
- Guard and Reserve members and their family members.
- Retired military personnel and their family members.

ATTENTION SINGLES
You do not have to be married or have a family to use the M&FRC. There are many useful programs for you too.

M&FRC Programs

  • Voting Assistance Office

    THE FEDERAL VOTING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR THE MILITARY

    Your Installation Voter Assistance Office (IVAO) is here to help you exercise the very right you protect-your right to vote! We can help you register to vote, request an absentee ballot and notify your local election officials back home of a change of address. The voting office supports all voting-eligible personnel with access to Tinker AFB including uniformed military personnel, DoD civilian employees and their dependents.

    VOTING IS DIFFERENT FOR MILITARY MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    Voting in the U.S. is controlled and conducted by state governments who have various rules, whether it's for voting early, by absentee, or at local polls if a local voter is temporarily gone on Election Day. Military voting is different because extended or overseas absences can prevent service members from using normal state voting rules. A special law, called the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, or UOCAVA, requires that the states and territories allow certain groups to register and vote absentee in federal elections.

    CAN I VOTE IF I’M DEPLOYED?

    While a few deploying or deployed members may be able to vote at their local polls prior to departure or will return in time to vote at their local polls, most deployed members must use the absentee voting process if they want to vote. Local briefings during deployment processing should encourage deploying members to take a copy of two voting forms with them: the SF-76, Federal Post Card Application, and the SF-186, Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot. Base voting action officers (or unit voting assistance officer) can help. The SF-76 is available at the Federal Voting Assistance Program Web (FVAP.gov) site. You are required to out-process through your unit voting assistance officer if you are deploying for more than 30 days.

    WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE UNDER THE UOCAVA LAW?

    All members of the U.S. uniformed services (on active duty) including Merchant Marines, their family members and U.S. citizens residing outside the U.S. The IVAO at each Air Force location will assist any member of any branch of service, their dependents and civilians that are eligible to vote.

    DO ALL MILITARY MEMBERS VOTE UNDER THE UOCAVA LAW OR CAN I VOTE LOCALLY?

    Military and family members stationed/working in their voting residence city and state, may vote locally at the polls or use their state's absentee process. Each state has specific residency and voter registration requirements. State rules and most required forms can be found at the FVAP Web site by searching your "state name" and entering the words "voting" or "election”. Phone numbers for local election or voting offices can be found in a phone book's "government offices" section. Even if it is not one's home state, military members may vote in the state or territory where they are stationed if they change their legal residence to that state or territory. Even if service members live on a military installation, just registering to vote at their new location will often result in a change in legal residence. Because there are legal and tax obligations that may be incurred, people should visit their base legal office for advice on local and state tax policies. Voters using UOCAVA protections continue to remain voting and tax residents of their home state without regard to the places their duty has taken them.

     

    HOW DO I COMPLETE AND SEND THE FORM?

    Because many states have specific rules, follow the instructions in the Voting Assistance Guide, which is available from a voting officer, or go to the FVAP Web site. Depending on the state, people can either mail or fax the SF-76 to their voting/election official. Although there is a deadline, some states allow late registration.

    SINCE MY FAMILY MEMBERS ARE NOT IN THE MILITARY, CAN THEY VOTE ABSENTEE?

    The law entitles eligible family members of military personnel to vote absentee. Family members are considered to be in the same absentee voter category as military members and generally should follow the same procedures. Family members of military personnel residing overseas, who are U.S. citizens and who have never resided in the U.S., usually claim a parent's legal status as their own if that parent is a U.S. citizen.

    WHERE IS MY "LEGAL VOTING RESIDENCE"?

    For voting purposes, the "legal voting residence" can be the state or territory where the service member last resided prior to entering military service or the state or territory that a service member has since claimed as the legal residence. To claim a new legal residence, one must have simultaneous physical presence and the intent to return to that location as the primary residence. Military and family members can choose to change their legal residence every time they change permanent duty stations. Military members and their families can have different legal voting residences. A legal officer should be consulted before legal residence is changed because there are usually other factors, besides voting, that need to be considered. People (such as property owners) can claim residency even though they may no longer maintain formal ties to that former residence address. All related paperwork should list the former address because it is needed to place people in a proper voting district, ward, precinct or parish.

    HOW DO I VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT?

    Complete and mail the Federal Post Card Application Form (SF-76). The best place to complete a SF-76 is on the Federal Voting Website, FVAP.gov. You can also contact your unit or Installation Voting Assistance Officer for more information.

    TINKER AFB POINT OF CONTACT

    The Tinker Air Force Base Voter Assistance Office is located in the Airman and Family Readiness Center, Building 6001, in the lobby area. The office is open for walk-ins every Wednesday, 1400-1600. An appointment for voting assistance can be made in advance by email (tinker.vote@us.af.mil) or telephone (405-739-2747). The office is closed Federal Holidays and designated AFMC Family Days.

    Your Installation and Unit Voting Assistance Officers are also available to help you request, fill-out, and return your absentee ballots.

    For more information regarding the Tinker voting program, please contact the Airman & Family Front Desk (405)739-2747

     

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