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March 26, 2005

Federal Bills to Amend HAVA

Here are links to the pending federal bills to amend HAVA.

House Bills:

H.R. 278 Know Your Vote Counts Act of 2005

H.R. 470 Improving Electronic Voting Standards and Disclosure Act of 2005

H.R. 533 Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Rights Act of 2005

H.R. 550 Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2005

H.R. 704 Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2005

H.R. 939 Count Every Vote Act of 2005

Senate Bills:

S. 17 Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Rights Act of 2005

S. 330 Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2005

S. 414 Voter Protection Act of 2005

S. 450 Count Every Vote Act of 2005

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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.

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February 22, 2005

News on More Proposed Changes to HAVA

Democrats and Republicans are busy introducing bills to amend HAVA. A Washington Times story discussing some of these recent efforts can be found here.

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February 12, 2005

Federal Voting Systems Bill

This bill would impose certain requirements on voting systems vendors (similar to those imposed by California law), prohibit conflicts of interest by voting systems testing authorities, and require the posting of a notice advising voters of their right to file a complaint if they believe that a voting machine is not working properly. The text of H.R. 470 can be found here.

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February 10, 2005

VIVA HAVA

United States Senator John Ensign (NV) has introduced a bill that would amend HAVA to require a voter-verified paper trail for touchscreen systems. The Senator's statement about his bill to enact the Voting Integrity and Verification Act (VIVA) is available here. I will post the text of the bill when it becomes available.

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January 30, 2005

Sweeping Amendments to HAVA Proposed

Senator Dodd has introduced a bill (S 17) that would make a number of sweeping changes to HAVA and significantly accelerate what some local election officials view as the "federalization" of election administration. Among other changes, Senator Dodd's legislation would establish national write-in ballots for federal elections, require voter verified ballots, provide for election day registration, regulate the removal of voters' names from voter registration lists, and impose requirements for counting provisional ballots. A pdf version of the bill to enact the "Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Rights Act of 2005" can be found here.

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