3.0.0 3100 2019-04-11T15:40:47Z 2019-04-11T15:40:47Z Senate S S 2008-06-06 110 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-06-06T17:54:12Z 2008-06-06 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. IntroReferral 2008-06-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress N000032 Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL] CLARENCE NELSON D FL WILLIAM N Government Operations and Politics Absentee voting Ballots Computer software Congress Congressional elections Disabled Economics and Public Finance Election Assistance Commission Election Day Election administration Electronic data interchange English language Federal aid to research Governmental investigations Grants-in-aid Illiteracy Postal service Presidential elections Research grants Science, Technology, Communications Security measures Standards State laws Voter registration Voting Voting machines Voting of the disabled Government Operations and Politics 00 2008-06-06 Introduced in Senate 2008-09-19T19:10:59Z Voting Opportunities and Integrity in the Conduct of Elections Act of 2008 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to: (1) allow individuals to vote in an election before the date of the regularly scheduled election; (2) require the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to issue standards for administration of such voting; and (3) require each state to permit any person otherwise qualified to vote in a federal election to vote in a manner other than in person, and impose no conditions or restrictions on absentee voting other than a reasonable deadline for requesting and returning the ballot.

Directs the EAC to establish a Vote by Mail grant program.

Requires each federal election voting system to require the use of or produce an individual, durable, voter-verified, paper ballot of the voter's vote, available for voter inspection and verification before the vote is cast and counted.

Directs 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, for voters whose primary language is not English, and for voters with difficulties in literacy.

Prohibits the use of: (1) uncertified election dedicated voting system technologies; and (2) any voting system unless its manufacturer and the election officials using it meet applicable security requirements.

Provides for mandatory availability of paper ballots at polling places.

Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to make research grants for development of election-dedicated voting system software.

Requires states to make unannounced random hand counts of the voter-verified paper ballots in a federal election.

Directs the EAC to establish: (1) a pre-registration implementation grant program; (2) an automatic re-registration grant program; and (3) a computerized system capable of communicating and exchanging data among participating states (interoperability).

Prohibits voter caging practices (those preventing voting or registration through the reliance by officials on certain non-forwardable or non-returned documents).

]]> Voting Opportunities and Integrity in the Conduct of Elections Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Voting Opportunities and Integrity in the Conduct of Elections Act of 2008 Display Title Voting Opportunities and Integrity in the Conduct of Elections Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to require early voting in Federal elections, to prohibit restrictions on absentee voting in Federal elections, to establish a grant program to promote voting by mail, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-06-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3100is/xml/BILLS-110s3100is.xml 2008-06-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. 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.