3.0.0 2295 2023-01-11T14:50:59Z 2023-01-11T14:50:59Z Senate S S 2007-11-01 110 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-11-01T22:08:39Z Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 110 811 HR 2007-05-16 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 91. Related bill CRS 2007-11-01 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13695-13701) IntroReferral 2007-11-01 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13694-13695) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-11-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress N000032 Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] CLARENCE NELSON D FL WILLIAM N W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2007-11-01 True Government Operations and Politics Ballots Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Civil rights enforcement Computer software Conflict of interests Congress Congressional elections Disabled Election Assistance Commission Election administration English language Grants-in-aid Illiteracy Laboratories Presidential elections Research and development Research grants Science, Technology, Communications Standards Test facilities Voting Voting machines Voting of the disabled Voting rights Government Operations and Politics 00 2007-11-01 Introduced in Senate 2008-02-04T20:35:34Z Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) with respect to: (1) ballot verification and mandatory paper record audit capacity; and (2) accessibility and ballot verification of results for individuals with disabilities.

Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study, test, and develop best practices to enhance the accessibility of ballot verification mechanisms for individuals with disabilities, voters whose primary language is not English, and voters with difficulties in literacy.

Requires laboratories to meet standards prohibiting conflicts of interest as a condition of accreditation for the testing of voting system hardware and software.

Outlines additional voting system requirements and prohibitions.

Provides for grants for research on development of election-dedicated voting system software.

Provides for complaints to the Attorney General by persons aggrieved by violations of HAVA.

Directs each state to administer, without advance notice to the precincts selected, audits of the results of elections for federal office held in the state consisting of random hand counts of the voter-verified paper paper ballots required to be produced and preserved for each such election held in the state. Requires the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make payments to states to cover the costs incurred in carrying out such mandatory manual audits.

Repeals the exemption of the EAC from certain government contracting requirements.

]]> Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 Display Title Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent paper ballot under title III of such Act, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-11-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2295is/xml/BILLS-110s2295is.xml 2007-11-01 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13695-13701) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.