II 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 804 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 7, 2007 Mrs. Clinton (for herself, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. Lautenberg) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration A BILL To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to improve the administration of elections for Federal office, and for other purposes.

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This Act may be cited as the Count Every Vote Act of 2007. (b)

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The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Voter verification and auditing Sec. 101. Promoting accuracy, integrity, and security through preservation of a voter-verified paper record. Sec. 102. Requirement for mandatory manual audits. 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. Sec. 107. Requirements for testing laboratories. 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. Equitable allocation of voting systems, poll workers, and election resources. Sec. 302. State plans to prevent unreasonable wait times; remedial plans; emergency ballots. 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 poll workers. Sec. 332. Impartial administration of elections. Sec. 333. Study on encouraging government employees and secondary school students to serve as poll workers. 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. Subtitle G—Newly eligible voters Sec. 361. Encouraging the registration of newly eligible voters. Sec. 362. Civic education pilot program. TITLE IV—Voter registration and identification Sec. 401. Voter registration. Sec. 402. Establishing voter identification for certain voters who register by mail. Sec. 403. Requirement for Federal certification of technological security of voter registration lists. Sec. 404. Coordination with state databases. 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. TITLE IX—Additional improvements to election procedures Sec. 901. Transmission of certificate of ascertainment of electors. Sec. 902. Study on feasibility of creating ranking system of State election administration processes. 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. Membership of Technical Guidelines Development Committee. Sec. 1004. Authorization of appropriations for requirements payments. TITLE XI—Effective date Sec. 1101. Effective date.