; and (2) clearly demonstrate the date and time that such marking or noticed was so placed. (c) Rule of construction Nothing in this section may be construed as requiring any change to the processes and procedures used by the Postal Service with respect to Postal Service barcodes on envelopes carried or delivered by the Postal Service. 3704. Application to Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act This chapter shall not apply to balloting materials under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter or otherwise affect the operation of such Act or section 3406 of this title. . (c) Postmarking stamps Section 503 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking Whoever forges and inserting (a) Whoever forges ; (2) by striking or such impression thereof, and all that follows and inserting the following: or such impression thereof— (1) shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; or (2) if the impression from a postmarking stamp or impression thereof forged, counterfeited, used, sold, or possessed in violation of this section is applied to a mailed ballot for an election for Federal, State, or local office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. ; and (3) by adding at the end following new subsection: (a) Whoever, with the intent to falsify the date on which a postmark was applied, applies to a mailed ballot described in subsection (a)(2) a genuine postmark that bears a date other than the date on which such postmark was applied, shall be subject to the penalties set forth in such subsection. . 131. Clarification of right of State to appeal decisions through duly authorized representative Section 1254 of title 28, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting a period