3.0.0 559 2023-01-11T19:58:22Z 2023-01-11T19:58:22Z Senate S S 2007-02-13 110 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-02-13T16:53:54Z 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 2007-02-13 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. IntroReferral 2007-02-13 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1903-1904) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-02-13 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 Administrative fees Administrative procedure Administrative remedies Armed Forces and National Security Authorization Ballots Blind Business records Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Commerce Competitive bidding Computer software Computers Conflict of interests Congress Congressional elections Corporation directors Department of Justice Directories Disabled Economics and Public Finance Election Assistance Commission Election administration Election fraud Evidence (Law) Federal Election Commission Fines (Penalties) Freedom of information Fund raising Government employees' political activities Government ethics Government paperwork Government procurement Government publicity Governmental investigations Grants-in-aid Illiteracy Independent regulatory commissions Internet Laboratories Language and languages Law Licenses Political action committees Presidential elections Public corruption Right of privacy Runoff elections Science, Technology, Communications Security measures Soldier voting Special elections Standards State officials Voter registration Voting Voting machines Voting of the disabled Voting rights Wireless communication Government Operations and Politics 00 2007-02-13 Introduced in Senate 2007-02-22T22:34:29Z Vote Integrity and Verification 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.

Extends the authorization of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).

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

Makes available additional funding to enable states to meet the costs of the requirements imposed by this Act.

Directs the chief auditor of each state to appoint an Election Audit Board to administer, without advance notice to the precincts selected, random hand counts of the voter-verified paper ballots required to be produced and preserved for each such election held in the state.

Makes it unlawful for a chief state election administration official to take an active part in political management or in a political campaign with respect to any federal election over which such official has supervisory authority.

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

]]> Vote Integrity and Verification 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 Display Title Vote Integrity and Verification Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Vote Integrity and Verification Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-02-13T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s559is/xml/BILLS-110s559is.xml 2007-02-13 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.