March 14, 2005

"County Every Vote Act of 2005

S. 450 is the Senate version of this bill, introduced by Senator Clinton last month. Here is the bill's table of contents:

TITLE I—VOTER VERIFICATION AND AUDITING
Sec. 101. Promoting accuracy, integrity, and security through preservation of
a voter-verified paper record or hard copy.
Sec. 102. Requirement for mandatory recounts.
Sec. 103. Specific, delineated requirement of study, testing, and development of
best practices.
Sec. 104. Voter verification and audit capacity funding.
Sec. 105. Reports and provision of security consultation services.
Sec. 106. Improvements to voting systems.

TITLE II—PROVISIONAL BALLOTS
Sec. 201. Requirements for casting and counting provisional ballots.

TITLE III—ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE HELP
AMERICA VOTE ACT OF 2002
Subtitle A—Shortening Voter Wait Times
Sec. 301. Minimum required voting systems, poll workers, and election resources.
Sec. 302. Requirements for jurisdictions with substantial voter wait times.
Subtitle B—No-Excuse Absentee Voting
Sec. 311. No-excuse absentee voting.
Subtitle C—Collection and Dissemination of Election Data
Sec. 321. Data collection.
Subtitle D—Ensuring Well Run Elections
Sec. 331. Training of election officials.
Sec. 332. Impartial administration of elections.
Subtitle E—Standards for Purging Voters
Sec. 341. Standards for purging voters.
Subtitle F—Election Day Registration and Early Voting
Sec. 351. Election day registration.
Sec. 352. Early voting.

TITLE IV—VOTER REGISTRATION AND IDENTIFICATION
Sec. 401. Voter registration.
Sec. 402. Establishing voter identification.
Sec. 403. Requirement for Federal certification of technological security of voter
registration lists.

TITLE V—PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES
Sec. 501. Prohibition on certain campaign activities.

TITLE VI—ENDING DECEPTIVE PRACTICES
Sec. 601. Ending deceptive practices.

TITLE VII—CIVIC PARTICIPATION BY EX-OFFENDERS
Sec. 701. Voting rights of individuals convicted of criminal offenses.

TITLE VIII—FEDERAL ELECTION DAY ACT
Sec. 801. Short title.
Sec. 802. Federal Election Day as a public holiday.
Sec. 803. Study on encouraging government employees to serve as poll workers.

TITLE IX—TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFICATE OF ASCERTAINMENT
OF ELECTORS
Sec. 901. Transmission of certificate of ascertainment of electors.

TITLE X—STRENGTHENING THE ELECTION ASSISTANCE
COMMISSION
Sec. 1001. Strengthening the Election Assistance Commission.
Sec. 1002. Repeal of exemption of Election Assistance Commission from certain
Government contracting requirements.
Sec. 1003. Authorization of appropriations.

Posted by Randy Riddle at March 14, 2005 11:10 AM