[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1004 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1004

  To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to establish a 
procedure under which individuals whose names do not appear on the list 
of registered voters in an election for Federal office at a particular 
polling place may cast provisional votes at the polling place, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2001

 Ms. Schakowsky (for herself and Mr. Conyers) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to establish a 
procedure under which individuals whose names do not appear on the list 
of registered voters in an election for Federal office at a particular 
polling place may cast provisional votes at the polling place, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Provisional Voting Rights Act of 
2001''.

SEC. 2. PERMITTING CERTAIN VOTERS TO CAST PROVISIONAL VOTES AT POLLING 
              PLACES.

    (a) In General.--Section 8(e) of the National Voter Registration 
Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 1973gg-6(e)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(e) Provisional Voting For Individuals Not on Official List at 
Polling Place.--
            ``(1) Permitting individuals to cast votes.--If an 
        individual who claims to be a registrant eligible to vote in an 
        election for Federal office at a polling place does not appear 
        on the official list of registrants eligible to vote in such 
        election at the polling place, the individual shall be 
        permitted to vote at that polling place upon written 
        affirmation by the individual before an election official at 
        that polling place that the individual is so eligible.
            ``(2) Treatment of votes cast.--
                    ``(A) Transfer to officials for verification.--Any 
                vote cast at a polling place by an individual under 
                paragraph (1) shall be transferred immediately by the 
                election official at the polling place to an 
                appropriate State or local election official for 
                verification of the claim made by the individual in the 
                affirmation required under such paragraph.
                    ``(B) Verification by election official.--Any vote 
                cast under paragraph (1) shall be counted and tabulated 
                in the same manner as other votes cast at the polling 
                place unless the appropriate State or local election 
                official determines that the claim made by the 
                individual in the affirmation required under such 
                paragraph cannot be verified.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to elections occurring after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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