The Department of Defense declared victory and reported a large increase in military voting efforts following their Federal Voting Assistance Program’s 2010 survey of the military. However, as the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky properly identified, the DOD cooked the books to hide its failure to protect military voters. The FVAP announced a 21% increase in military voting from 2006 to 2010. However, the FVAP combined active duty members with reservists (for the first time) in their biased analysis, significantly overrepresented older members of the military, and was criticized by the U.S. Government Accountability Office for the survey’s low response rates. Additionally, the FVAP’s report revealed that 29% (approximately 120,000 members) of the active duty military did not receive their absentee ballot in 2010.