116 HR 2722 : Securing America’s Federal Elections Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2019-06-28
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1.Short title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Securing America’s Federal Elections Act
or the SAFE Act
. (b)The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Title I—Financial Support for Election Infrastructure
Subtitle A—Voting System Security Improvement Grants
Part 1—Promoting Accuracy, Integrity, and Security Through Voter-Verified Permanent Paper Ballot
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Paper ballot and manual counting requirements.
Sec. 103. Accessibility and ballot verification for individuals with disabilities.
Sec. 104. Durability and readability requirements for ballots.
Sec. 105. Paper ballot printing requirements.
Sec. 106. Study and report on optimal ballot design.
Sec. 107. Effective date for new requirements.
Part 2—Grants to Carry Out Improvements
Sec. 111. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system
security improvements.
Sec. 112. Coordination of voting system security activities with use of requirements payments and
election administration requirements under Help America Vote Act of 2002.
Sec. 113. Incorporation of definitions.
Subtitle B—Risk-Limiting Audits
Sec. 121. Risk-limiting audits.
Sec. 122. Funding for conducting post-election risk-limiting audits.
Sec. 123. GAO analysis of effects of audits.
Title II—Promoting Cybersecurity Through Improvements in Election Administration
Sec. 201. Voting system cybersecurity requirements.
Sec. 202. Testing of existing voting systems to ensure compliance with election cybersecurity
guidelines and other guidelines.
Sec. 203. Requiring use of software and hardware for which information is disclosed by
manufacturer.
Sec. 204. Treatment of electronic poll books as part of voting systems.
Sec. 205. Pre-election reports on voting system usage.
Sec. 206. Streamlining collection of election information.
Title III—Use of voting machines manufactured in the United States
Sec. 301. Use of voting machines manufactured in the United States.
Title IV—Severability
Sec. 401. Severability.
<enum>I</enum><header>Financial Support for Election Infrastructure</header>
<subtitle id="H8C32C74645154F85B6EF121F1017567D"><enum>A</enum><header>Voting System Security Improvement Grants</header>
<part id="H739940ED7D884F2FB94BF6B2D40B53A2"><enum>1</enum><header>Promoting Accuracy, Integrity, and Security Through Voter-Verified Permanent Paper Ballot</header>
<section id="HD3DEAB6156F040CF9201042A194C250A"><enum>101.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be cited as the <quote>Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019</quote>.</text> </section><section id="H1DC33C30FDBE4F42B06A114E758FA128"><enum>102.</enum><header>Paper ballot and manual counting requirements</header> <subsection id="H769F6C5012414F588E2D4DAC7ACB4AE1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 301(a)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H4B2BE6077C0E45F087C5F1DC953BA99E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Paper ballot requirement</header>
<subparagraph id="HCA79C067C8954F35BA8B687E3C9A451C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Voter-verified paper ballots</header>
<clause id="HDCEFCDD51CDC49E9BDB78B15A7863799"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Paper ballot requirement</header>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD07007D90737474FBEEB7CE20EB1FB37"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The voting system shall require the use of an individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballot of the voter’s vote that shall be marked and made available for inspection and verification by the voter before the voter’s vote is cast and counted, and which shall be counted by hand or read by an optical character recognition device or other counting device. For purposes of this subclause, the term <term>individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballot</term> means a paper ballot marked by the voter by hand or a paper ballot marked through the use of a nontabulating ballot marking device or system, so long as the voter shall have the option to mark his or her ballot by hand. The paper ballot shall be printed or marked in such a way that vote selections, including all vote selections scanned by voting systems to tabulate votes, can be inspected and verified by the voter without training or instruction or audited by election officials without the aid of any machine or other equipment.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HE4FF52E16C7442C8865F84E2155A191C" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The voting system shall provide the voter with an opportunity to correct any error on the paper ballot before the permanent voter-verified paper ballot is preserved in accordance with clause (ii).</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HEC436D8814AB4CA6AA8AC8C67056E271" indent="up1"><enum>(III)</enum><text>The voting system shall not preserve the voter-verified paper ballots in any manner that makes it possible, at any time after the ballot has been cast, to associate a voter with the record of the voter’s vote without the voter’s consent.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HCFDCF46C0E53418AA56251D17B7FE297"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Preservation as official record</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballot used in accordance with clause (i) shall constitute the official ballot and shall be preserved and used as the official ballot for purposes of any recount or audit conducted with respect to any election for Federal office in which the voting system is used.</text>
</clause><clause id="HE25927684082457B9C63B43360EA9BF9"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Manual counting requirements for recounts and audits</header>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H37F02B6578744D768E80587112D4649D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Each paper ballot used pursuant to clause (i) shall be suitable for a manual audit, and shall be counted by hand in any recount or audit conducted with respect to any election for Federal office.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H5D4094F06A7841F8ACB2CFE3ABA1AFEA" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the event of any inconsistencies or irregularities between any electronic vote tallies and the vote tallies determined by counting by hand the individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots used pursuant to clause (i), and subject to subparagraph (B), the individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots shall be the true and correct record of the votes cast.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H74A61249F576438A9004AD2FF46887FC"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Application to all ballots</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The requirements of this subparagraph shall apply to all ballots cast in elections for Federal office, including ballots cast by absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and other absentee voters.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB573122516334F4B9DCC72B7613B55B7"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Special rule for treatment of disputes when paper ballots have been shown to be compromised</header>
<clause id="HE9BA06FD80504AAB905600D19F7D3315"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the event that—</text> <subclause id="H6C93D6906B9C448BBFBF9D57B89FBF9C"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">there is any inconsistency between any electronic vote tallies and the vote tallies determined by counting by hand the individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots used pursuant to subparagraph (A)(i) with respect to any election for Federal office; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H1EA0A1AA800C425E87D0630096DF6847"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">it is demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence (as determined in accordance with the applicable standards in the jurisdiction involved) in any recount, audit, or contest of the result of the election that the paper ballots have been compromised (by damage or mischief or otherwise) and that a sufficient number of the ballots have been so compromised that the result of the election could be changed,</text>
</subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">the determination of the appropriate remedy with respect to the election shall be made in
accordance with applicable State law, except that the electronic tally
shall not be used as the exclusive basis for determining the official
certified result.</continuation-text></clause><clause id="H731C4CE0A320454DA83D02B2D0F6B381"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Rule for consideration of ballots associated with each voting machine</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of clause (i), only the paper ballots deemed compromised, if any, shall be considered in the calculation of whether or not the result of the election could be changed due to the compromised paper ballots.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HC1BC90AF3DC04EE1B3B17E63C1A53709"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment clarifying applicability of alternative language accessibility</header><text>Section 301(a)(4) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>(including the paper ballots required to be used under paragraph (2))</quote> after <quote>voting system</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HCF4CB1B3683F431DB7D3A0CDAB966CDE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Other conforming amendments</header><text>Section 301(a)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB1E6F3EC08FF493BBB40F7E6E761211E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking <quote>counted</quote> and inserting <quote>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF7E0730E90834CE3ACE2A28F25294831"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking <quote>counted</quote> and inserting <quote>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H52A290039DB6474A830B1D7D0FAEDAAE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking <quote>counted</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB966D7790F3D4B1EBBAC91B9B242629E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking <quote>counted</quote> and inserting <quote>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HF0737F36339B47D08C5A0C0ECF6ACE8C"><enum>103.</enum><header>Accessibility and ballot verification for individuals with disabilities</header>
<subsection id="HF0AE074D444A45F2814830B225E897CA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 301(a)(3)(B) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(3)(B)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H3F067FA654654AC89DBA348C914A70C1"><enum>(B)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H0166E20B4E06428EA481565ABF087CBA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>ensure that individuals with disabilities and others are given an equivalent opportunity to vote, including with privacy and independence, in a manner that produces a voter-verified paper ballot as for other voters;</text>
</clause><clause id="H26D4EBE05FEC4234AD01273533FD2F2C" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>satisfy the requirement of subparagraph (A) through the use of at least one voting system equipped for individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual and enhanced visual accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, and nonmanual and enhanced manual accessibility for the mobility and dexterity impaired, at each polling place; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HF78FBF463721426C9E77AD4B1409421D" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>meet the requirements of subparagraph (A) and paragraph (2)(A) by using a system that—</text> <subclause id="H659ABFFA51B54DADBFC67755406601F4"><enum>(I)</enum><text>allows the voter to privately and independently verify the permanent paper ballot through the presentation, in accessible form, of the printed or marked vote selections from the same printed or marked information that would be used for any vote counting or auditing; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H98C86D6CAE2A49ECB0A851F1F15ABD5D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>allows the voter to privately and independently verify and cast the permanent paper ballot without requiring the voter to manually handle the paper ballot; and</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H9DB745A2807C4BEA9FC7763C6E01A23F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Specific requirement of study, testing, and development of accessible paper ballot verification
mechanisms</header>
<paragraph id="HD1D94ABC713541F9ADEC3E2980AFAA27"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Study and reporting</header><text>Subtitle C of title II of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081</external-xref> et seq.) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H34F1722980A146F59EBB1352EC86F92C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating section 247 as section 248; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE9DD021A6EF048B5A5B0AC01630446FC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after section 246 the following new section:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB88CCFEE5522489AAA723AE0A2247E9A" style="OLC"> <section id="HD9E82644C7DC4934AD70505C6253025D"><enum>247.</enum><header>Study and report on accessible paper ballot verification mechanisms</header> <subsection id="H5C8E7AB29ADC450EB9CA128395F05A21"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study and report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the National Science Foundation shall make grants to not fewer than three eligible entities to study, test, and develop accessible paper ballot voting, verification, and casting mechanisms and devices and best practices to enhance the accessibility of paper ballot voting and verification mechanisms for individuals with disabilities, for voters whose primary language is not English, and for voters with difficulties in literacy, including best practices for the mechanisms themselves and the processes through which the mechanisms are used.</text>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB2FFED0D57FF4C17A0EBF0446CDBDDF0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligibility</header><text>An entity is eligible to receive a grant under this part if it submits to the Director (at such time and in such form as the Director may require) an application containing—</text>
<paragraph id="HF36C372B51AB47C190A0723F3640C19E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">certifications that the entity shall specifically investigate enhanced methods or devices, including non-electronic devices, that will assist such individuals and voters in marking voter-verified paper ballots and presenting or transmitting the information printed or marked on such ballots back to such individuals and voters, and casting such ballots;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H369551DF65D24BFE8C01FF56E8168222"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a certification that the entity shall complete the activities carried out with the grant not later than December 31, 2020; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4B0E87F8AF81446AB7F56F47257BDBA9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>such other information and certifications as the Director may require.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6BB4C8B7B8B24D6C97604BE72BAD0926"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Availability of technology</header><text>Any technology developed with the grants made under this section shall be treated as non-proprietary and shall be made available to the public, including to manufacturers of voting systems.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H5801222DA5A942BEAF1A49DB3498B098"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Coordination with grants for technology improvements</header><text>The Director shall carry out this section so that the activities carried out with the grants made under subsection (a) are coordinated with the research conducted under the grant program carried out by the Commission under section 271, to the extent that the Director and Commission determine necessary to provide for the advancement of accessible voting technology.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H228141F2761E4BAA8DA4E5F053336CD2"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsection (a) $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9AF70F7BD2974E3DAA3A7AB9FBCC9CBF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of such Act is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H0C9343F4717E4B8FAF4845F4587ECFAD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating the item relating to section 247 as relating to section 248; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFB47F778765A42EC917D205A6BC34807"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after the item relating to section 246 the following new item:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H144859454CF74BFA9A638013069A8EB2" style="OLC"> <toc regeneration="no-regeneration"> <toc-entry level="section">Sec. 247. Study and report on accessible paper ballot verification mechanisms.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD7913949EE0442AD8EB31CBDECA41395"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clarification of accessibility standards under voluntary voting system guidance</header><text>In adopting any voluntary guidance under subtitle B of title III of the Help America Vote Act with respect to the accessibility of the paper ballot verification requirements for individuals with disabilities, the Election Assistance Commission shall include and apply the same accessibility standards applicable under the voluntary guidance adopted for accessible voting systems under such subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HABB9543A66494FDAA801C04BC139411C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Permitting use of funds for protection and advocacy systems to support actions to enforce
election-Related disability access</header><text>Section 292(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21062">52 U.S.C. 21062(a)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>; except that</quote> and all that follows and inserting a period.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H4C59BBCC1DE24D3CA6D6346BACF6C173"><enum>104.</enum><header>Durability and readability requirements for ballots</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HEEC2F79701E747C2875518DC1BDC991A"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Durability and readability requirements for ballots</header>
<subparagraph id="H7104CBDBAEE7458AB79AB0421B71C55A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Durability requirements for paper ballots</header>
<clause id="H4488958291C44E4785222891E1716405"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All voter-verified paper ballots required to be used under this Act shall be marked or printed on durable paper.</text>
</clause><clause id="HEBBA3C5F63DE46BDA4562E385C7B807F"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>For purposes of this Act, paper is <quote>durable</quote> if it is capable of withstanding multiple counts and recounts by hand without compromising the fundamental integrity of the ballots, and capable of retaining the information marked or printed on them for the full duration of a retention and preservation period of 22 months.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF30274DB12BD4AB19A83E93D52BEAA85"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Readability requirements for paper ballots marked by ballot marking device</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All voter-verified paper ballots completed by the voter through the use of a ballot marking device shall be clearly readable by the voter without assistance (other than eyeglasses or other personal vision enhancing devices) and by an optical character recognition device or other device equipped for individuals with disabilities.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="HCFC1F0E8BD8D44E48A5B4CA44438788A"><enum>105.</enum><header>Paper ballot printing requirements</header>
<subsection id="HF71FB46518854D379B97EAF874AAAB77"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requiring paper ballots To be printed on recycled paper manufactured in United States</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</external-xref>), as amended by section 104, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H827E46159937438D956A0FC413335ED6"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Printing requirements for ballots</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All paper ballots used in an election for Federal office shall be printed in the United States on recycled paper manufactured in the United States.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H177BA5D5CEA74B948339FB942E7C3E1E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to elections occurring on or after January 1, 2021.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H15E0C53EDA0D43A59E7051C013E479BC"><enum>106.</enum><header>Study and report on optimal ballot design</header>
<subsection id="HA8E7949734E74F0E94F0DECE36604781"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Election Assistance Commission shall conduct a study of the best ways to design ballots used in elections for public office, including paper ballots and electronic or digital ballots, to minimize confusion and user errors.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3483A8E3A11346989A5456136B20D19B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than January 1, 2020, the Election Assistance Commission shall submit to Congress a report on the study conducted under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HE2C37692F5444E2E8FE90CB786E23CB3"><enum>107.</enum><header>Effective date for new requirements</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 301(d) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(d)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H705461E0014547C387B6759F491A4232"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective Date</header>
<paragraph id="HD5F8A60B204D41C698CF247173A738E1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with the requirements of this section on and after January 1, 2006.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3B5EDD58BFFE4C47821539B62AD0B3BD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Special rule for certain requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="HDEBFD81D9F404339B581649527EF4C80"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in section 105(b) of the Securing America’s Federal Elections Act and subparagraphs (B) and (C), the requirements of this section which are first imposed on a State and jurisdiction pursuant to the amendments made by the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019 shall apply with respect to voting systems used for any election for Federal office held in 2020 or any succeeding year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H69F1D54EF57545709E097097D12B39B4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Delay for jurisdictions using certain paper record printers or certain systems using or producing
voter-verified paper records in 2018</header>
<clause id="H6D950DF6A2EE4656877420BB06C083BC"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Delay</header><text>In the case of a jurisdiction described in clause (ii), subparagraph (A) shall apply to a voting system in the jurisdiction as if the reference in such subparagraph to <quote>2020</quote> were a reference to <quote>2022</quote>, but only with respect to the following requirements of this section:</text>
<subclause id="H6D2D65060D6D4C9C90B262D4020A5B3F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Paragraph (2)(A)(i)(I) of subsection (a) (relating to the use of voter-verified paper ballots).</text> </subclause><subclause id="H8D08A1EAFFE84243B77A41AF2F892162"><enum>(II)</enum><text>Paragraphs (3)(B)(iii)(I) and (II) of subsection (a) (relating to access to verification from and casting of the durable paper ballot).</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H993EC70EFA354820884E810AC3FD9945"><enum>(III)</enum><text>Paragraph (7) of subsection (a) (relating to durability and readability requirements for ballots).</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="HAD2DE786B409482BAA3C4E4C8842E47E"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Jurisdictions described</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A jurisdiction described in this clause is a jurisdiction—</text>
<subclause id="H6CDA1A2A94BA4D33852286C52D0C25CF"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">which used voter-verified paper record printers attached to direct recording electronic voting machines, or which used other voting systems that used or produced paper records of the vote verifiable by voters but that are not in compliance with paragraphs (2)(A)(i)(I), (3)(B)(iii)(I) and (II), and (7) of subsection (a) (as amended or added by the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019), for the administration of the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2018; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H3AC441837E3943A4A092C3787D6A52AF"><enum>(II)</enum><text>which will continue to use such printers or systems for the administration of elections for Federal office held in years before 2022.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H848AD44BD1B244F5B6E812C644B84812"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Mandatory availability of paper ballots at polling places using grandfathered printers and systems</header>
<subclause id="HDD384D21FC5C4CE29F426B2D4E2F4B3F"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Requiring ballots to be offered and provided</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The appropriate election official at each polling place that uses a printer or system described in clause (ii)(I) for the administration of elections for Federal office shall offer each individual who is eligible to cast a vote in the election at the polling place the opportunity to cast the vote using a blank pre-printed paper ballot which the individual may mark by hand and which is not produced by the direct recording electronic voting machine or other such system. The official shall provide the individual with the ballot and the supplies necessary to mark the ballot, and shall ensure (to the greatest extent practicable) that the waiting period for the individual to cast a vote is the lesser of 30 minutes or the average waiting period for an individual who does not agree to cast the vote using such a paper ballot under this clause.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HE4E40F2113794A19979375594BE4D47C"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Treatment of ballot</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any paper ballot which is cast by an individual under this clause shall be counted and otherwise treated as a regular ballot for all purposes (including by incorporating it into the final unofficial vote count (as defined by the State) for the precinct) and not as a provisional ballot, unless the individual casting the ballot would have otherwise been required to cast a provisional ballot.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H2AA5D4F6650C4959AFB2A4F2C47892DC"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Posting of notice</header><text>The appropriate election official shall ensure there is prominently displayed at each polling place a notice that describes the obligation of the official to offer individuals the opportunity to cast votes using a pre-printed blank paper ballot.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HE807D29CF0B54CD5B2D98DDB1AA0BC74"><enum>(IV)</enum><header>Training of election officials</header><text>The chief State election official shall ensure that election officials at polling places in the State are aware of the requirements of this clause, including the requirement to display a notice under subclause (III), and are aware that it is a violation of the requirements of this title for an election official to fail to offer an individual the opportunity to cast a vote using a blank pre-printed paper ballot.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H3CB6DFB8024B47C8B76825CBF817D715"><enum>(V)</enum><header>Period of applicability</header><text>The requirements of this clause apply only during the period in which the delay is in effect under clause (i).</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC620A9F918F843EA9123EB893E9391C3"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Special rule for jurisdictions using certain nontabulating ballot marking devices</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a jurisdiction which uses a nontabulating ballot marking device which automatically deposits the ballot into a privacy sleeve, subparagraph (A) shall apply to a voting system in the jurisdiction as if the reference in such subparagraph to <quote>any election for Federal office held in 2020 or any succeeding year</quote> were a reference to <quote>elections for Federal office occurring held in 2022 or each succeeding year</quote>, but only with respect to paragraph (3)(B)(iii)(II) of subsection (a) (relating to nonmanual casting of the durable paper ballot).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></part><part id="H59BC4FFD891E46199A09ACFBC56DDC56"><enum>2</enum><header>Grants to Carry Out Improvements</header>
<section id="H35D0FA848C714065B17C42EB5D59B418"><enum>111.</enum><header>Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security
improvements</header>
<subsection id="HBA57973BF29A49B5BF928C51E6862867"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Availability of grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21001">52 U.S.C. 21001</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new part:</text>
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<part id="HA33FE293622D4D5CBF250CD688BD27FF"><enum>7</enum><header>Grants for Obtaining Compliant Paper Ballot Voting Systems and Carrying Out Voting System Security
Improvements</header>
<section id="HA90A041E5F8A4CAC9FBA40491591EA6F"><enum>297.</enum><header>Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security
improvements</header>
<subsection id="HADB7E700FB2941EEAC1EA100DB14A60F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Availability and use of grant</header><text>The Commission shall make a grant to each eligible State—</text> <paragraph id="HD28DD92F4521409FA1A9F2A3A1FC1706"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to replace a voting system—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6822CC0031274B9BB3B7F757F3BEC7AC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>which does not meet the requirements which are first imposed on the State pursuant to the amendments made by the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019 with a voting system which does meet such requirements, for use in the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in November 2020; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2F5B8B84608F46F2A38D2D5C7EB6547E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">which does meet such requirements but which is not in compliance with the most recent voluntary voting system guidelines issued by the Commission prior to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 with another system which does meet such requirements and is in compliance with such guidelines;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H42B95D9F82E6444584FE86AF16E4520A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to carry out voting system security improvements described in section 297A with respect to the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding election for Federal office; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H881C5420DAA149E5A3C63CEB9B37693C"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to implement and model best practices for ballot design, ballot instructions, and the testing of ballots.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H18C66EF3E7274AD68268E0CBC8DC788D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amount of grant</header><text>The amount of a grant made to a State under this section shall be such amount as the Commission determines to be appropriate, except that such amount may not be less than the product of $1 and the average of the number of individuals who cast votes in any of the two most recent regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in the State.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA9A5E20299834B1C869CC3B20EC4171E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Pro rata reductions</header><text>If the amount of funds appropriated for grants under this part is insufficient to ensure that each State receives the amount of the grant calculated under subsection (b), the Commission shall make such pro rata reductions in such amounts as may be necessary to ensure that the entire amount appropriated under this part is distributed to the States.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H21F58F8DC54D49F0A49E0A0578A1ABCE"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Surplus appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the amount of funds appropriated for grants authorized under section 297D(a)(2) exceed the amount necessary to meet the requirements of subsection (b), the Commission shall consider the following in making a determination to award remaining funds to a State:</text>
<paragraph id="H720A4FE078A743A29E8E86028B3E2F1F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The record of the State in carrying out the following with respect to the administration of elections for Federal office:</text>
<subparagraph id="H95CB7EF74BFD4C8CB461AB277A4B62F0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Providing voting machines that are less than 10 years old.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4B3D5836331F4DA6867645FCCEA3FC7E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Implementing strong chain of custody procedures for the physical security of voting equipment and paper records at all stages of the process.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF03178A165E740BD8A466518C5EB734C"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conducting pre-election testing on every voting machine and ensuring that paper ballots are available wherever electronic machines are used.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF891C01A7716461C8AF6D90BC98FBBCA"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maintaining offline backups of voter registration lists.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H192256E3F6994DC48F9D740B143A3FC6"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing a secure voter registration database that logs requests submitted to the database.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7FA3EEE5BF4545DCAD17D6A5CB72E5A5"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Publishing and enforcing a policy detailing use limitations and security safeguards to protect the personal information of voters in the voter registration process.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H86176700F0B24E82A1652EED2066FB19"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing secure processes and procedures for reporting vote tallies.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAFA7882F2AA3460C8AFB73D3B1BDC788"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing a secure platform for disseminating vote totals.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF986D2AAF7A044DA8B43FA15E4B4AE16"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evidence of established conditions of innovation and reform in providing voting system security and the proposed plan of the State for implementing additional conditions.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H81E2D12B6CE14582A4A8087EC60EB29B"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evidence of collaboration between relevant stakeholders, including local election officials, in developing the grant implementation plan described in section 297B.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD8624A9683EF403891A9A16DA7318C2D"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The plan of the State to conduct a rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities carried out with the grant.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H02345B06227F460F933F19FCDD6FFCBC"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Ability of replacement systems To administer ranked choice elections</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the greatest extent practicable, an eligible State which receives a grant to replace a voting system under this section shall ensure that the replacement system is capable of administering a system of ranked choice voting under which each voter shall rank the candidates for the office in the order of the voter’s preference.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H939C20F739A04FEDB04F496905DB1480"><enum>297A.</enum><header>Voting system security improvements described</header>
<subsection id="H26A6FF00AA7D497D973837736FCDD1F7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Permitted uses</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A voting system security improvement described in this section is any of the following:</text> <paragraph id="HB5EC29AA8F8241419B814DE430199FEC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The acquisition of goods and services from qualified election infrastructure vendors by purchase, lease, or such other arrangements as may be appropriate.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0240113FB9384B008D485C3C8A0DF814"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Cyber and risk mitigation training.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3073ABCFF61E4CA6B30EA76DCDC286E4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A security risk and vulnerability assessment of the State’s election infrastructure which is carried out by a provider of cybersecurity services under a contract entered into between the chief State election official and the provider.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H17F7F66D467B49F892B7E18F5A07F25B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The maintenance of election infrastructure, including addressing risks and vulnerabilities which are identified under either of the security risk and vulnerability assessments described in paragraph (3), except that none of the funds provided under this part may be used to renovate or replace a building or facility which is used primarily for purposes other than the administration of elections for public office.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H809F7803C67D45E6BB0538ED6A802497"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Providing increased technical support for any information technology infrastructure that the chief State election official deems to be part of the State’s election infrastructure or designates as critical to the operation of the State’s election infrastructure.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAFB9C22667EE4993B1386006DDBD925C"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Enhancing the cybersecurity and operations of the information technology infrastructure described in paragraph (4).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5BF026B526304E6C9B2C830ADBE93A99"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Enhancing the cybersecurity of voter registration systems.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8C42D875503148E989C5AA1591D73D04"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Qualified election infrastructure vendors described</header> <paragraph id="H78C8C008B0774DDEA7F62C457A92C48F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this part, a <quote>qualified election infrastructure vendor</quote> is any person who provides, supports, or maintains, or who seeks to provide, support, or maintain, election infrastructure on behalf of a State, unit of local government, or election agency, who meets the criteria described in paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFBBF31583FF14FAD8AF19D68E9A034FB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Criteria</header><text>The criteria described in this paragraph are such criteria as the Chairman, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall establish and publish, and shall include each of the following requirements:</text>
<subparagraph id="H25D9F387ADBE49F38496EBE001906947"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The vendor must be owned and controlled by a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H65DCAB72212046DDB9980E1413773697"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The vendor must disclose to the Chairman and the Secretary, and to the chief State election official of any State to which the vendor provides any goods and services with funds provided under this part, of any sourcing outside the United States for parts of the election infrastructure.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H07F6165EA9374E5895004B8AD2874270"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The vendor agrees to ensure that the election infrastructure will be developed and maintained in a manner that is consistent with the cybersecurity best practices issued by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0528670D9ABD4ACE8E84EDDDCA871D13"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The vendor agrees to maintain its information technology infrastructure in a manner that is consistent with the cybersecurity best practices issued by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H301E11167D38479EB7E1B2C3042530B7"><enum>(E)</enum><text>The vendor agrees to meet the requirements of paragraph (3) with respect to any known or suspected cybersecurity incidents involving any of the goods and services provided by the vendor pursuant to a grant under this part.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2FB3889C12D847548E617813FD41ADBD"><enum>(F)</enum><text>The vendor agrees to permit independent security testing by the Commission (in accordance with section 231(a)) and by the Secretary of the goods and services provided by the vendor pursuant to a grant under this part.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2C53F8E0081E4C97AFC5D975D88B5C04"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Cybersecurity incident reporting requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="H4F50BE4D011747AB8B75EC42F5477E1B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A vendor meets the requirements of this paragraph if, upon becoming aware of the possibility that an election cybersecurity incident has occurred involving any of the goods and services provided by the vendor pursuant to a grant under this part—</text>
<clause id="H4F85F6CD8E164A99AEC1AAD7F51AD5EB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the vendor promptly assesses whether or not such an incident occurred, and submits a notification meeting the requirements of subparagraph (B) to the Secretary and the Chairman of the assessment as soon as practicable (but in no case later than 3 days after the vendor first becomes aware of the possibility that the incident occurred);</text>
</clause><clause id="HC00DF24D352E42A7BFA7C9F7E5F9B5CE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if the incident involves goods or services provided to an election agency, the vendor submits a notification meeting the requirements of subparagraph (B) to the agency as soon as practicable (but in no case later than 3 days after the vendor first becomes aware of the possibility that the incident occurred), and cooperates with the agency in providing any other necessary notifications relating to the incident; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HE19926F788694F2E9FEB66ADE6D82BA1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the vendor provides all necessary updates to any notification submitted under clause (i) or clause (ii).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0ED3D087FC94484D924D86277A929B26"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents of notifications</header><text>Each notification submitted under clause (i) or clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall contain the following information with respect to any election cybersecurity incident covered by the notification:</text>
<clause id="HFE1A24CC682D42F9AE5D043E57835868"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The date, time, and time zone when the election cybersecurity incident began, if known.</text> </clause><clause id="H651694DC7470439194F484629BDA4C8B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The date, time, and time zone when the election cybersecurity incident was detected.</text>
</clause><clause id="H2ACFA3E0012C45A1A67C61BE7DA7B5E2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The date, time, and duration of the election cybersecurity incident.</text> </clause><clause id="H14405B47C29945C4B490DF64591BC1DA"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The circumstances of the election cybersecurity incident, including the specific election infrastructure systems believed to have been accessed and information acquired, if any.</text>
</clause><clause id="HA0652BD7B9F44E71B59D7403A8B9D002"><enum>(v)</enum><text>Any planned and implemented technical measures to respond to and recover from the incident.</text> </clause><clause id="HE01F2432413C40E99BE7DD053F2F264B"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>In the case of any notification which is an update to a prior notification, any additional material information relating to the incident, including technical data, as it becomes available.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HE8A9E4D68DC241B99C194F3E974537CE"><enum>297B.</enum><header>Eligibility of States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A State is eligible to receive a grant under this part if the State submits to the Commission, at such time and in such form as the Commission may require, an application containing—</text>
<paragraph id="HCC8CFCBD51B348D69F3A24D0AF302EE8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a description of how the State will use the grant to carry out the activities authorized under this part;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA3D82128AB384CC0B57DD78F8CEB3B76"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a certification and assurance that, not later than 5 years after receiving the grant, the State will carry out voting system security improvements, as described in section 297A; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0754962C08CB48DB81B0F04012A6B28F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>such other information and assurances as the Commission may require.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="HDC6EF1C84EF9443090CD27DB6709702B"><enum>297C.</enum><header>Reports to Congress</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Commission shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees, including the Committees on Homeland Security, House Administration, and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Judiciary, and Rules and Administration of the Senate, on the activities carried out with the funds provided under this part.</text>
</section><section id="H640DC66C35184C6DB65F6095ECCD8821"><enum>297D.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header>
<subsection id="HA80C5DE8CAE948ACA876A7515CD1792E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated for grants under this part—</text> <paragraph id="H11CD0E3010AC41EE84C16D8AB786340A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>$600,000,000 for fiscal year 2019; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H301D2AA975DD4826BBCC657C9FDAD9FB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>$175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H80B710BD4C83442985122A68E5B0E66F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Continuing availability of amounts</header><text>Any amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of this section shall remain available until expended.</text></subsection></section></part><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HF8BA3D44DB444BD39145231BA2535AC8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents of such Act is amended by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following:</text>
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<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="part">Part 7—Grants for Obtaining Compliant Paper Ballot Voting Systems and Carrying Out Voting System
Security Improvements</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 297. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system
security improvements.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 297A. Voting system security improvements described.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 297B. Eligibility of States.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 297C. Reports to Congress.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 297D. Authorization of appropriations.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H70000DAC73CB48A398F972CD384BD3EB"><enum>112.</enum><header>Coordination of voting system security activities with use of requirements payments and election
administration requirements under Help America Vote Act of 2002</header>
<subsection id="H858B2353B7744530AAA4D74B3A1396A2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Duties of Election Assistance Commission</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20922">52 U.S.C. 20922</external-xref>) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking <quote>by</quote> and inserting <quote>and the security of election infrastructure by</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0B9E97CD49214B11A89AA0649E78DF73"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Membership of Secretary of Homeland Security on Board of Advisors of Election Assistance Commission</header><text>Section 214(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20944">52 U.S.C. 20944(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H2479CD26A79244C1978E833E2FAD8D1A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>37 members</quote> and inserting <quote>38 members</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAD0A94847A9941EEA8F02B532C6D8FD1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1617DF8479194F56B12327DACFAE6720" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H2BADBC15A79B4A21956A8AD37E9A8A80"><enum>(17)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary’s designee.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7701D0DB2FF14A9397CC38BBCF165777"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Representative of Department of Homeland Security on Technical Guidelines Development Committee</header><text>Section 221(c)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20961">52 U.S.C. 20961(c)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HD0245D61D11246E5ABE8EA250A48B747"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (F); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB4CDC0C8EE2F4C4398E4F3D7DF71EEC9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB8633D1AD0B24E7FAE5E7C4F84469962" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HC43CF0990DD948D2B987BD017A522C08"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A representative of the Department of Homeland Security.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC1C754D0565A4A809D83C446D9235E2A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Goals of periodic studies of election administration issues; consultation with Secretary of
Homeland Security</header><text>Section 241(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20981">52 U.S.C. 20981(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H2E9283B108FC4DD0A1ED5E77BDD49BFC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>the Commission shall</quote> and inserting <quote>the Commission, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security (as appropriate), shall</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB39B05EA389143CF943A37E1AE1D7B2A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (3);</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD6B23C545E34414EA3088DB6A0DE8379"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA29A2C061E6649EFBD31140F7ED9FB36"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1DCAB91565F042B1A11B52CAE7A12F26" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HB106D6767A394C2EA5C157E12B84A4A3"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">will be secure against attempts to undermine the integrity of election systems by cyber or other means; and</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H686BAE93520541FE88E3D45EC236BAA4"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Requirements payments</header>
<paragraph id="H65ED0B01358142FDB3C9C9F979B7A1E0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Use of payments for voting system security improvements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 251(b) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21001">52 U.S.C. 21001(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HD59733D33E484763B032521133D87055"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Permitting use of payments for voting system security improvements</header><text>A State may use a requirements payment to carry out any of the following activities:</text> <subparagraph id="H142100723EF34A66A03E8F5696EBD1EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Cyber and risk mitigation training.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H22BA93D6CEDC4EA6BB4AF2E34B25254D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Providing increased technical support for any information technology infrastructure that the chief State election official deems to be part of the State’s election infrastructure or designates as critical to the operation of the State’s election infrastructure.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9DF3576C310A42BC9E43042265B167BD"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhancing the cybersecurity and operations of the information technology infrastructure described in subparagraph (B).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H62ECFAD47BBD419EAE3A8E2DEAA820F2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Enhancing the security of voter registration databases.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6C5FEFF1FC524867A174F2F3A9969F01"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Incorporation of election infrastructure protection in State plans for use of payments</header><text>Section 254(a)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21004">52 U.S.C. 21004(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>, including the protection of election infrastructure.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC6F8E34141E3446DBC41AF155F501A69"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Composition of committee responsible for developing State plan for use of payments</header><text>Section 255 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21005">52 U.S.C. 21005</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HBAD31120B6414A48B3A45FBD580C41D0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5583D735F5384B1BADD8793BBEE9CE58"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFF34563F15F64BD987B16533916A42AA" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H8430222D88A54A82862A4ED3D704E692"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Geographic representation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The members of the committee shall be a representative group of individuals from the State’s counties, cities, towns, and Indian tribes, and shall represent the needs of rural as well as urban areas of the State, as the case may be.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA7A682C9AAD24655B088FB60A713E3B0"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Ensuring protection of computerized Statewide voter registration list</header><text>Section 303(a)(3) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21083">52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>, as well as other measures to prevent and deter cybersecurity incidents, as identified by the Commission, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H47D4AC4F0532429EBA6ACE67EEAD424E"><enum>113.</enum><header>Incorporation of definitions</header>
<subsection id="H6D1F9305BC134A2D8BDE6D41323FE03D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 901 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21141">52 U.S.C. 21141</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91CB6AE22D45425FAA9E3E3AAA3177EE" style="OLC"> <section id="H32589A971C954BB8B3A783ECA8753168"><enum>901.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this Act, the following definitions apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H4D7B1BF2625D4DD39CB5D6DE6BE21B81"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The term <term>cybersecurity incident</term> has the meaning given the term <term>incident</term> in section 227 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/659">6 U.S.C. 659</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H52135B0A54E04AFA9196E6DFB248CF07"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>election agency</term> means any component of a State, or any component of a unit of local government in a State, which is responsible for the administration of elections for Federal office in the State.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD0E80458FE18428C87ABC2DF97D92C3A"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>election infrastructure</term> means storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulation locations used to support the administration of elections for public office, as well as related information and communications technology (including the technology used by or on behalf of election officials to produce and distribute voter guides to elections), including voter registration databases, voting machines, electronic mail and other communications systems (including electronic mail and other systems of vendors who have entered into contracts with election agencies to support the administration of elections, manage the election process, and report and display election results), and other systems used to manage the election process and to report and display election results on behalf of an election agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0B4D4030D73B46178BD5465E84042579"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</text></paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H450B4FD3A2E74855A0CF5B15B7FD871F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of such Act is amended by amending the item relating to section 901 to read as follows:</text>
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</subsection></section></part></subtitle><subtitle id="HD3395FCEEDCC46E4B7D2247AA7F90365"><enum>B</enum><header>Risk-Limiting Audits</header>
<section id="HC2AD62D4A4A342CAA31755BAAC60D581"><enum>121.</enum><header>Risk-limiting audits</header>
<subsection id="H01F366CBB7B142EAAA9568E4DE4BD70D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 303 the following new section:</text>
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<section id="H028A4A9B771540CF83E985F39774EF1E"><enum>303A.</enum><header>Risk-limiting audits</header>
<subsection id="H97148B4A8E6841DFB4C49198A86C8E37"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H0A424FEA7F4744A581C2B38B2E95BBDD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Risk-limiting audit</header><text>The term <term>risk-limiting audit</term> means, with respect to any election contest, a post-election process that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC0C0076015384E21AEA41611BD553528"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has a probability of at least 95 percent of correcting the reported outcome if the reported outcome is not the correct outcome;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H497FA5EEB2C745478ED61A8E2AEE2B17"><enum>(B)</enum><text>will not change the outcome if the reported outcome is the correct outcome; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5D7C07A86D084B4FB2479978FF41C7E4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>involves a manual adjudication of voter intent from some or all of the ballots validly cast in the election contest.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HAE51ACD018874246894130EF91FEBBEC"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Reported outcome; correct outcome; outcome</header>
<subparagraph id="H99FF979D381A4F76A881728164AACD99"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Reported outcome</header><text>The term <term>reported outcome</term> means the outcome of an election contest which is determined according to the canvass and which will become the official, certified outcome unless it is revised by an audit, recount, or other legal process.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H56F71590502F4AF894A5113C198989E5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Correct outcome</header><text>The term <term>correct outcome</term> means the outcome that would be determined by a manual adjudication of voter intent for all votes validly cast in the election contest.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H65F59E6730414F3287A4E3247EA25463"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Outcome</header><text>The term <term>outcome</term> means the winner or set of winners of an election contest.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA380685F779D4073ACB466725294103A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Manual adjudication of voter intent</header><text>The term <term>manual adjudication of voter intent</term> means direct inspection and determination by humans, without assistance from electronic or mechanical tabulation devices, of the ballot choices marked by voters on each voter-verified paper record.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD537BE5CF0064479AE315339D5AFB3BA"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Ballot manifest</header><text>The term <term>ballot manifest</term> means a record maintained by each jurisdiction that—</text> <subparagraph id="HC4087155AA0B443EA971B6E09F6C9928"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is created without reliance on any part of the voting system used to tabulate votes;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9AD500F1CE084D0ABEBCD32DE5606912"><enum>(B)</enum><text>functions as a sampling frame for conducting a risk-limiting audit; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4D16B9FE07434422992E53A185F0249B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>accounts for all ballots validly cast regardless of how they were tabulated and includes a precise description of the manner in which the ballots are physically stored, including the total number of physical groups of ballots, the numbering system for each group, a unique label for each group, and the number of ballots in each such group.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H80FBBF915F81452D8E27561F5F226311"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Requirements</header>
<paragraph id="H5DC393D7B5CA47ED8F32EFE0BF23F481"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header>
<subparagraph id="H2454C6625F5F4785947A2C7AB6A39CF0"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Audits</header>
<clause id="HFBA0BCB1AECA406391CDDE4E5901C8B0"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Each State and jurisdiction shall administer risk-limiting audits of the results of all election contests for Federal office held in the State in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (2).</text>
</clause><clause id="HA55FCB362EB741068BFDE60749B96E83"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply to any election contest for which the State or jurisdiction conducts a full recount through a manual adjudication of voter intent.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5783C23B98704534B58029389414F008"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Full manual tabulation</header><text>If a risk-limiting audit conducted under subparagraph (A) corrects the reported outcome of an election contest, the State or jurisdiction shall use the results of the manual adjudication of voter intent conducted as part of the risk-limiting audit as the official results of the election contest.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFF00E458A2BE4C729299845F2515D235"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Audit requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="HD2AAB918B79E40968E9EB6FA673D4B63"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Rules and procedures</header>
<clause id="H8B3B596D7D0A47B8A9C503AE2FCFEEE0"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the chief State election official of the State shall establish rules and procedures for conducting risk-limiting audits.</text>
</clause><clause id="HA7BE36022F744011AC3349803F8F96A3"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Matters included</header><text>The rules and procedures established under clause (i) shall include the following:</text> <subclause id="H05AFFF3FC8D0460C8FDAED864492F4F6"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Rules and procedures for ensuring the security of ballots and documenting that prescribed procedures were followed.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HBF1C86AB38724B66A4D47FF21101F16E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>Rules and procedures for ensuring the accuracy of ballot manifests produced by jurisdictions.</text> </subclause><subclause id="H55C27AC929514106811AEF3A4FBB38DE"><enum>(III)</enum><text>Rules and procedures for governing the format of ballot manifests and other data involved in risk-limiting audits.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H0F823A976D644F85971F68494BE47D26"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>Methods to ensure that any cast vote records used in a risk-limiting audit are those used by the voting system to tally the results of the election contest sent to the chief State election official of the State and made public.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H50D717EA1F63468986D8B2207B8C6E6E"><enum>(V)</enum><text>Rules and procedures for the random selection of ballots to be inspected manually during each audit.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H72FF3391AF0D4A9FACEC1B215D798612"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>Rules and procedures for the calculations and other methods to be used in the audit and to determine whether and when the audit of each election contest is complete.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H899BAD7B4C4D4D5784A63B1CC4F761FB"><enum>(VII)</enum><text>Rules and procedures for testing any software used to conduct risk-limiting audits.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3C81A95E36034E34B1D33A7724C20303"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Public report</header> <clause id="HF6C3B3A36E864C32BAEE13AC771A4E82"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>After the completion of the risk-limiting audit and at least 5 days before the election contest is certified, the State shall publish a report on the results of the audit, together with such information as necessary to confirm that the audit was conducted properly.</text>
</clause><clause id="H98E97D9A4D4344C29C1AEA93931CC307"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Format of data</header><text>All data published with the report under clause (i) shall be published in machine-readable, open data formats.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3BC473EFB6D844FEB5A0D36610DFA8F1"><enum>(iii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Protection of anonymity of votes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information and data published by the State under this subparagraph shall not compromise the anonymity of votes.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFAA40F0A518940E6B22F4BDD532549D6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>Each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with the requirements of this section for the first regularly scheduled election for Federal office held more than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the Securing America’s Federal Elections Act and for each subsequent election for Federal office.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H417F0ADB21584D488242CC17B193900A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment relating to enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 401 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21111">52 U.S.C. 21111</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>sections 301, 302, and 303</quote> and inserting <quote>subtitle A of title III</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF24EA8C257FC4F45AD9BE59FC2F84D94"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Clerical Amendment</header><text>The table of contents for such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 303 the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 303A. Risk-limiting audits.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="HEADDDC8ABC964E34A52B19AECA588A82" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>122.</enum><header>Funding for conducting post-election risk-limiting audits</header>
<subsection id="HB54AFB85855E4946B44A5D758756C115"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Payments to States</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21001">52 U.S.C. 21001</external-xref> et seq.), as amended by section 111(a), is amended by adding at the end the following new part:</text>
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<part id="H3E2B67D5D6904317AB9B30DD17B86023"><enum>8</enum><header>Funding for Post-Election Risk-Limiting Audits</header>
<section id="HACA80E3B0A9C465BBC68282625B41582"><enum>298.</enum><header>Payments for post-election risk-limiting audits</header>
<subsection id="H51C74AE6B68C482A9789F07872998C11"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall pay to States the amount of eligible post-election audit costs.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HB697D17C0BBC4FDCB9D63B61FBD72904"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligible post-Election audit costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term <term>eligible post-election audit costs</term> means, with respect to any State, costs paid or incurred by the State or local government within the State for—</text>
<paragraph id="HF738DB740CC3461896A2D7596535D005"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the conduct of any risk-limiting audit (as defined in section 303A) with respect to an election for Federal office occurring after the date of the enactment of this part; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H874CDB7029CF4B9685A4766571D5DA97"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any equipment, software, or services necessary for the conduct of any such risk-limiting audit.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9BC0EE20B61F49828903726E850B6FE8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Special rules</header> <paragraph id="HB55438B3FC4443A993ACD911D36D2654"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Rules and procedures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall establish rules and procedures for submission of eligible post-election audit costs for payments under this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3316048F9BAE44D590062425157693D2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Insufficient funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any case in which the amounts appropriated under subsection (d) are insufficient to pay all eligible post-election audit costs submitted by States with respect to any Federal election, the amount of such costs paid under subsection (a) to any State shall be equal to the amount that bears the same ratio to the amount which would be paid to such State (determined without regard to this paragraph) as—</text>
<subparagraph id="H21E4E046F7814A4A973C53FA58FC5918"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the number of individuals who voted in such Federal election in such State; bears to</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF3E168A94B0E4348B172E64561DDB8B1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the total number of individuals who voted in such Federal election in all States submitting a claim for eligible post-election audit costs.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF81B2A064FDB45B0B131F8EEE9C0B339"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header>
<paragraph id="H92D227DC6E5443B9B5B0A482E511EFAA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as are necessary to carry out this part.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H370EA2F29E144D1B83F9F1CBDB5D11AD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Availability</header><text>Any amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall remain available without fiscal year limitation until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></part><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H82143CF134EB47AE86FB176E9678FB0B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of such Act, as amended by section 111(b), is further amended by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 298. Payments for post-election risk-limiting audits.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H35EB883804504D28974A357AE116B8FA"><enum>123.</enum><header>GAO analysis of effects of audits</header>
<subsection id="HA440A26091F242DABE48E50F024FB698"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Analysis</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 6 months after the first elections for Federal office is held for which States must conduct risk-limiting audits under section 303A of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (as added by section 121), the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct an analysis of the extent to which such audits have improved the administration of such elections and the security of election infrastructure in the States receiving such grants.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB1B38A7DEE03472EBCE02748AA4A9685"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>The Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report on the analysis conducted under subsection (a) to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header>Promoting Cybersecurity Through Improvements in Election Administration</header>
<section id="H6816F68DEE0E41D1AE221AF8DDFEB037"><enum>201.</enum><header>Voting system cybersecurity requirements</header>
<subsection id="HB90E0CC88DF54316BF0DCDA7679D8F34"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Ballot tabulating devices</header><text>Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</external-xref>), as amended by section 104 and section 105, is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBD09F05982494BCC971360E115E6566B"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Ballot tabulating methods</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H51757C2B1DF7457F96357C2EDDC922E4"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The voting system tabulates ballots by hand or through the use of an optical scanning device that meets the requirements of subparagraph (B).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEE2E6957E3043128DADA4ECF9A04B3D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requirements for optical scanning devices</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the requirements of this subparagraph are as follows:</text> <clause id="H48F64D45305F4F5FBA3CB9F382E62745"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The device is designed and built in a manner in which it is mechanically impossible for the device to add or change the vote selections on a printed or marked ballot.</text>
</clause><clause id="H6AAD733AD327427AB351DD3A574B3640"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The device is capable of exporting its data (including vote tally data sets and cast vote records) in a machine-readable, open data standard format required by the Commission, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.</text>
</clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H36546DDBA53042EC8A1C328BAD41373E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The device consists of hardware that demonstrably conforms to a hardware component manifest describing point-of-origin information (including upstream hardware supply chain information for each component) that—</text>
<subclause id="H9501407DC5114A0686F624983B5C3D4B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>has been provided to the Commission, the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, and the chief State election official for each State in which the device is used; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HCACE9CE5D5E34442803B3DBA1A889B68"><enum>(II)</enum><text>may be shared by any entity to whom it has been provided under subclause (I) with independent experts for cybersecurity analysis.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H3D4CB10F18324AFDA8E0040181A65CF9"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The device utilizes technology that prevents the operation of the device if any hardware components do not meet the requirements of clause (iii).</text>
</clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF706C328DA4241C0A3BDD130B5C81C79"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The device operates using software for which the source code, system build tools, and compilation parameters—</text>
<subclause id="H554D6D5F00B6425AA79D487FCCB84E6C"><enum>(I)</enum><text>have been provided to the Commission, the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, and the chief State election official for each State in which the device is used; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H9AA4574AE83E435686B091D72CEF8323"><enum>(II)</enum><text>may be shared by any entity to whom it has been provided under subclause (I) with independent experts for cybersecurity analysis.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H63A1B9DA9CEC4714956E4D747CDB4A9B"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>The device utilizes technology that prevents the running of software on the device that does not meet the requirements of clause (v).</text>
</clause><clause id="HECD2933A84DD41C49964410498612757"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>The device utilizes technology that enables election officials, cybersecurity researchers, and voters to verify that the software running on the device—</text>
<subclause id="H4F31B44761B0400EB2C97CA3C8A158C7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>was built from a specific, untampered version of the code that is described in clause (v); and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H9256DDA1984C458DBBE1FFB416D2AE87"><enum>(II)</enum><text>uses the system build tools and compilation parameters that are described in clause (v).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H707DEFD3BB7E4C79AAFD92251FFD2596"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>The device contains such other security requirements as the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security requires.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1E3C64A593C24CB0845C2C172727518B"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Waiver</header>
<clause id="H10E7D798BFAA4E60989C2944E224FAC1"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, may waive one or more of the requirements of subparagraph (B) (other than the requirement of clause (i) thereof) with respect to any device for a period of not to exceed 2 years.</text>
</clause><clause id="H6F941F417A2B4B60A1E7F9DA2B8C8D24"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Publication</header><text>Information relating to any waiver granted under clause (i) shall be made publicly available on the Internet.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9671991C98B1481E9E5781043FBB8250"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with the requirements of this paragraph for the regularly scheduled election for Federal office in November 2024, and for each subsequent election for Federal office.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFBDCA5EBF3B84439B275B8FD101A7398"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other cybersecurity requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</external-xref>), as amended by section 104, section 105, and subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:</text>
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<paragraph id="HA5F28EBCF97246B6823612E0C2409384"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Prohibition of use of wireless communications devices in systems or devices</header>
<subparagraph id="HF99FDA6C866B4531B8CED05BB664A1E3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No system or device upon which ballot marking devices or optical scanners are configured, upon which ballots are marked by voters (except as necessary for individuals with disabilities to use ballot marking devices that meet the accessibility requirements of paragraph (3)), or upon which votes are cast, tabulated, or aggregated shall contain, use, or be accessible by any wireless, power-line, or concealed communication device.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54D3E1FD71A0471882B5B1EC3512EA90"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with the requirements of this paragraph for the regularly scheduled election for Federal office in November 2020, and for each subsequent election for Federal office.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0AA1493D637541D4837FD46BAF01B6B7"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Prohibiting connection of system to the internet</header>
<subparagraph id="HAB2FE1FFD57E43048A5AD98447FDA1C3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No system or device upon which ballot marking devices or optical scanners are configured, upon which ballots are marked by voters, or upon which votes are cast, tabulated, or aggregated shall be connected to the Internet or any non-local computer system via telephone or other communication network at any time.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEBCBC93D9E745DCA6A3716431F73B9A"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with the requirements of this paragraph for the regularly scheduled election for Federal office in November 2020, and for each subsequent election for Federal office.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H344FDE82862A46F2A1BFAE490D80DA07"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Special cybersecurity rules for certain ballot marking devices</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"></text> <paragraph id="H680C3AF34F5249C2A278C7FF722C37C2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 301(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</external-xref>), as amended by section 104, section 105, and subsections (a) and (b), is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H80258D19FC524E5EBE024F42965F68EA"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Ballot marking devices</header>
<subparagraph id="H295FEEC87CDF440792632C3DD8034503"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the case of a voting system that uses a ballot marking device, the ballot marking device shall be a device that—</text>
<clause id="HE586635DDFE54A5BACD0FFC3D13DB2B4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is not capable of tabulating votes;</text> </clause><clause id="H8840CFAD51104162B47E21C85FC1670D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>except in the case of a ballot marking device used exclusively to comply with the requirements of paragraph (3), is certified in accordance with section 232 as meeting the requirements of subparagraph (B); and</text>
</clause><clause id="HE23382FBFB5A448BA9341BF8EFB4456F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>meets the requirements of clauses (iii) through (viii) of section 301(a)(9)(B).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1E7F5595B87047C5991B74A9910855DF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requirements</header> <clause id="HEAF377935E6B4F87891DA8792B95D125"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A ballot marking device meets the requirements of this subparagraph if, during a double-masked test conducted by a qualified independent user experience research laboratory (as defined in section 232(b)(4)) of a simulated election scenario which meets the requirements of clause (ii), there is less than a 5 percent chance that an ordinary voter using the device would not detect and report any difference between the vote selection printed on the ballot by the ballot marking device and the vote selection indicated by the voter.</text>
</clause><clause id="HED59969388554B6B98860E4F8A628E96"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Simulated election scenario</header><text>A simulated election scenario meets the requirements of this clause if it is conducted with—</text> <subclause id="H0F05436B123E41CA9F4E60107E2CC6EB"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a pool of subjects that are—</text>
<item id="HA05E033719B744629D53A127AF8E5452"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>diverse in age, gender, education, and physical limitations; and</text> </item><item id="H84A2BDB203744BCC82AB4AF45653CE76"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>representative of the communities in which the voting system will be used; and</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="H16C9D642FDE840218103C26F6CFC0C85"><enum>(II)</enum><text>ballots that are representative of ballots ordinarily used in the communities in which the voting system will be used.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0FC0A03D55074118859A1AC339ED8474"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>Each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with the requirements of this paragraph for the regularly scheduled election for Federal office in November 2022, and for each subsequent election for Federal office.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9382CD9512404F7C97A34590DFE13DDD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Procedure for testing</header>
<subparagraph id="HC3FCF7AD5F1447E9BD23E2227734BA6E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subtitle B of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20971">52 U.S.C. 20971</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
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<section id="H9024BDC3B28D445D949D16B0A74BD30A"><enum>232.</enum><header>Testing and certification of ballot marking devices</header>
<subsection id="H398EFD297BA641D48BF2182FF268D67E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any State or jurisdiction which intends to use a ballot marking device (other than a ballot marking device used exclusively to comply with the requirements of section 301(a)(3)) in an election for Federal office may submit an application to the Commission for testing and certification under this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC0CB09F169F14F1DB8B55AEBFC011C26"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application, assignment, and testing</header>
<paragraph id="H9B4E589A36BD4B7CAFB91A2B54ECCBB2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An application under subsection (a) shall be submitted not later than 18 months before the date of the election for Federal office in which the ballot marking device is intended to be used and shall contain such information as the Commission requires.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDF5D0EA50ABE4E16A314CF6D685877EA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Assignment</header><text>Upon receipt of an application for testing under this section, the Commission shall contract with a qualified independent user experience research laboratory for the testing of whether the ballot marking device intended to be used by the State or jurisdiction meets the requirements of section 301(a)(12)(B).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8BEC69AA0B244B9693FF3BB49F30A434"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Requirements for testing</header><text>Any contract described in paragraph (2) shall require the qualified independent user experience research laboratory to—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5207D8973EC1472D8654D545AD77BFE5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not later than 30 days before testing begins, submit to the Commission for approval the protocol for the simulated election scenario used for testing the ballot marking device;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0EB15E95107747E6B42238C4E428C412"><enum>(B)</enum><text>use only protocols approved by the Commission in conducting such testing; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0B527E25DE8049928F49CF7B0C0E1CA3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>submit to the Commission a report on the results of the testing.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1CAFB39ACC2F4E98A47DA17C25E06329"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Qualified independent user experience research laboratory</header><text>For purposes of this section:</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06B31BFC7404483DA81F1E12BB8AF0ED"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>qualified independent user experience research laboratory</term> means a laboratory accredited under this subsection by the Election Assistance Commission in accordance with standards determined by the Commission, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Secretary of Homeland Security.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5718E2D273242B487D3B3CB071841E9"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Criteria</header><text>A laboratory shall not be accredited under this subsection unless such laboratory demonstrates that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF83C3A5A2B1E447E9A76C2EEF348C079"><enum>(i)</enum><text>no employee of, or individual with an ownership in, such laboratory has, or has had during the 5 preceding years, any financial relationship with a manufacturer of voting systems; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H610A5DFE6C9A468294A988533D077276"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any group of individuals conducting tests under this section collectively meet the following qualifications:</text>
<subclause id="HF732F41AFD5241DF9CCF5F8EC15E397A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Experience designing and running user research studies and experiments using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H449CBF006A3F4272BCE041917745E535"><enum>(II)</enum><text>Experience with voting systems.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H92ECC05D7A5B440282C8B96A56AA936E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Review by independent board</header> <paragraph id="HE2B2863CBEF14B1E9148D72809FD8501"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Commission shall submit for approval to an independent review board established under paragraph (3) the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="HA61B90649C0F4465A525DF9B2EEC872B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Any protocol submitted to the Commission under subsection (b)(3)(A).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBE17167B9B2246C58008257CAAA3856F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Any report submitted to the Commission under subsection (b)(3)(C).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3A3342473E2B4EDDAC7FA16FDCDBA522"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Final approval</header><text>Not later than the date that is 12 months before the date of the election for Federal office in which a State or jurisdiction intends to use the ballot marking device, the independent review board shall report to the Commission on whether it has approved a report submitted under paragraph (1)(B).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H53E11C8312B34886B25F885AF63BE47E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Independent review board</header>
<subparagraph id="HCF66EAABF1A24CCBBF4E3EDC659557C1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An independent review board established under this paragraph shall be composed of five independent scientists appointed by the Commission, in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H03ACEEFB5C3A4D958E8DECAD1D41DC40"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Qualifications</header><text>The members of the independent review board—</text> <clause id="HEAF359E316DD421393A1430DC96AE213"><enum>(i)</enum><text>shall have expertise and relevant peer-reviewed publications in the following fields: cognitive psychology, experimental design, statistics, and user experience research and testing; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H954D469348AE4885B037DA75EE212C39"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>may not have, or have had during the 5 preceding years, any financial relationship with a manufacturer of voting systems.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6C4E94FB18B54725B65930FC54415622"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Publication</header><text>The Commission shall make public—</text> <subparagraph id="H861A8BCC4D064C92AC97FC8A92714027"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any protocol approved under this subsection;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA230ECB8C9A949AD82F93B26F66575F7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any report submitted under subsection (b)(3)(C); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA435988C31A3425DA4B6851422C683C6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any determination made by an independent review board under paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H78B27261A09D4A509FCC5E2A14E451EF"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>If—</text> <paragraph id="HFDF951A126EC4F45B65090FE9141CA23"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a ballot marking device is determined by the qualified independent user experience research laboratory to meet the requirements of section 301(a)(12); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H784955E4AED94FCAB6C5A8CB10AA9D05"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the report submitted under subsection (b)(3)(C) is approved by a majority of the members of the independent review board under subsection (d)(2),</text>
</paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">then the Commission shall certify the ballot marking device.</continuation-text></subsection><subsection id="H44D99077EB86462AAAA7FEF8B3196313"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Prohibition on fees</header><text>The Commission may not charge any fee to a State or jurisdiction, a developer or manufacturer of a ballot marking device, or any other person in connection with testing and certification under this section.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE706229C3B214BFA8C4148F9D668CBBF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header>
<clause id="HA36D8B3492A94FB3AFDF5EB68BD37988"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Section 202(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20922">52 U.S.C. 20922(2)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>and ballot marking devices</quote> after <quote>hardware and software</quote>).</text> </clause><clause id="H3390C43EFDE04DA5854080A9B4932F02"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The heading for subtitle B of title II of such Act is amended by inserting at the end <quote><header-in-text level="subtitle" style="OLC">; ballot marking devices</header-in-text></quote>.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H551F8699DAFB41F7BDBC1636EBE9DC81"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents of such Act is amended—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCB14CD6FE5D6471FB0E1BEE891BCD6F7"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>; Ballot Marking Devices</quote> at the end of the item relating to subtitle B of title II; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBD8E6CA5AC6C427AA6282B8579D28978"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after the item related to section 231 the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H3C6959AD2A8949649251D918435C2351" style="OLC"> <toc> <toc-entry level="section">Sec. 232. Testing and certification of ballot marking devices.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H3253DBC5A049462492CB0825B37FBF45"><enum>202.</enum><header>Testing of existing voting systems to ensure compliance with election cybersecurity guidelines and other guidelines</header> <subsection id="H2C6A1E411B6D42F398FF7D6BB6D88803"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requiring testing of existing voting systems</header> <paragraph id="HCB11BD07258748B298F3693F7C757125"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 231(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20971">52 U.S.C. 20971(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HD273A94F03714B38B093AF738661D4F8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Testing to ensure compliance with guidelines</header>
<subparagraph id="H1DF7480F80ED4762BAE1FFD60B967D83"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Testing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 9 months before the date of each regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, the Commission shall provide for the testing by accredited laboratories under this section of the voting system hardware and software which was certified for use in the most recent such election, on the basis of the most recent voting system guidelines applicable to such hardware or software (including election cybersecurity guidelines) issued under this Act.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H020DC1158C0A49FC965C92C385238299"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Decertification of hardware or software failing to meet guidelines</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, on the basis of the testing described in subparagraph (A), the Commission determines that any voting system hardware or software does not meet the most recent guidelines applicable to such hardware or software issued under this Act, the Commission shall decertify such hardware or software.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2340FCB500334F358A1DA24335372404"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding regularly scheduled general election for Federal office.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HBFD8342C3B9B4D2D90660D2A9C9E73F0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Issuance of cybersecurity guidelines by Technical Guidelines Development Committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 221(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20961">52 U.S.C. 20961(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H9F74F77820E8425E8CAE3ACACCA7248E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Election cybersecurity guidelines</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of the Securing America’s Federal Elections Act, the Development Committee shall issue election cybersecurity guidelines, including standards and best practices for procuring, maintaining, testing, operating, and updating election systems to prevent and deter cybersecurity incidents.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H17BD1F9A294944218A9662ECB84F1B07"><enum>203.</enum><header>Requiring use of software and hardware for which information is disclosed by manufacturer</header>
<subsection id="HA6CEC468864B435B9F5FC41352C1DEC3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</external-xref>), as amended by sections 104, 105, 201(a), 201(b), and 201(c), is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="H7C2BC309ADE745ACA6894F0252C072D8"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Requiring use of software and hardware for which information is disclosed by manufacturer</header>
<subparagraph id="H826831E5EC0C4903852B7669174E8F60"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Requiring use of software for which source code is disclosed by manufacturer</header>
<clause id="HE44C2FC0F89D4D74BD8EC8D999D7B244"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the operation of voting systems in an election for Federal office, a State may only use software for which the manufacturer makes the source code (in the form in which will be used at the time of the election) publicly available online under a license that grants a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, sub-licensable license to all intellectual property rights in such source code, except that the manufacturer may prohibit a person who obtains the software from using the software in a manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation that is unrelated to carrying out legitimate research or cybersecurity activity.</text>
</clause><clause id="H7386B34FAC9A4A76BCE360FA6E9B8090"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>Clause (i) does not apply with respect to—</text> <subclause id="HEB17ED8DAE1E4B4287B84BAB2A01BA71"><enum>(I)</enum><text>widely-used operating system software which is not specific to voting systems and for which the source code or baseline functionality is not altered; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H977F0316B4734B0795A2B0037C81DD4C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>widely-used cybersecurity software which is not specific to voting systems and for which the source code or baseline functionality is not altered.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5160600E2063404DA57EDEBF1C113207"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requiring use of hardware for which information is disclosed by manufacturer</header>
<clause id="HB4EAD80E8DE1469090D591DEDA5B7BFC"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Requiring disclosure of hardware</header><text>A State may not use a voting system in an election for Federal office unless the manufacturer of the system publicly discloses online the identification of the hardware used to operate the system.</text>
</clause><clause id="HE85A82444376475FAC793030DF0D1554"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Additional disclosure requirements for custom or altered hardware</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent that the hardware used to operate a voting system or any component thereof is not widely-used, or is widely-used but is altered, the State may not use the system in an election for Federal office unless—</text>
<subclause id="HCA4519142FBB417A81A8EBCA9880548A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the manufacturer of the system publicly discloses online the components of the hardware, the design of such components, and how such components are connected in the operation of the system; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H5551A51216644A6EA089632761A165DB"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the manufacturer makes the design (in the form which will be used at the time of the election) publicly available online under a license that grants a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, sub-licensable license to all intellectual property rights in the design of the hardware or the component, except that the manufacturer may prohibit a person who obtains the design from using the design in a manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation that is unrelated to carrying out legitimate research or cybersecurity activity.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H2B4E3A47FF254FA59420719C45EB79B8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to elections for Federal office held in 2020 or any succeeding year.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H54124ACB2E4F47AC9E015687F75811BA"><enum>204.</enum><header>Treatment of electronic poll books as part of voting systems</header>
<subsection id="HC4D8888EDEA14F8ABFB5722C19F82650"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Inclusion in definition of voting system</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H62A956B063E44081B4A18CBB26C98F5E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>this section</quote> and inserting <quote>this Act</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H64C3FEF6FB524873ABA5F22DD554AC67"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (1);</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1524CE10C944477AA8BF8BF2DA1671B4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HADD339C5BBAE4B998D42EA96C8BB8A2C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H25D81CBB83B0466C8643247E8C4CCB28" style="traditional"> <paragraph id="H748830E5ADCD45CF83CBD584C57090F6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any electronic poll book used with respect to the election; and</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD3D5CE76A4E74835A6F15EE60442E018"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 301 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H9BC38C484668422195699686FFF7B3EC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEFD42DE71FE74C77ABA493657C4108E4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA173179AB3034D80B0BDC12EC7C192A7" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HB207170AF798431BB6F65248487CAF10"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Electronic poll book defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this Act, the term <term>electronic poll book</term> means the total combination of mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic equipment (including the software, firmware, and documentation required to program, control, and support the equipment) that is used—</text>
<paragraph id="H97F1DD41992E4791A3D84B111CE9A721"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to retain the list of registered voters at a polling location, or vote center, or other location at which voters cast votes in an election for Federal office; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA78BAA3D4D624A8899627845576F4D06"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to identify registered voters who are eligible to vote in an election.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF68ACBB9502F400D958FB310A69D6337"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>Section 301(e) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(e)</external-xref>), as amended by section 107 and as redesignated by subsection (b), is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE06AF640BB3F4FF1B5C2130EA935D7DE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>paragraph (2)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraphs (2) and (3)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1CE15CE0DB6E4032A6ED91B03463B801"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HC103284B276042D0BDC25B5759E9D244"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Special rule for electronic poll books</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of the requirements of subsection (c) (relating to electronic poll books), each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with such requirements on or after January 1, 2020.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H7E4F2AE03CA44C9FA2A494C6D058B53F"><enum>205.</enum><header>Pre-election reports on voting system usage</header>
<subsection id="HA5FC2677524541008522EE562BF0318F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requiring States To submit reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081</external-xref> et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 301 the following new section:</text>
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<section id="HA7D29FE20E824C388A414199E54BCC41"><enum>301A.</enum><header>Pre-election reports on voting system usage</header>
<subsection id="HBD718A993EC94B5B8284AC87A1CB1B4C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Requiring States To submit reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 120 days before the date of each regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, the chief State election official of a State shall submit a report to the Commission containing a detailed voting system usage plan for each jurisdiction in the State which will administer the election, including a detailed plan for the usage of electronic poll books and other equipment and components of such system.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3EF7705223394DFAA018021F6290E8CB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding regularly scheduled general election for Federal office.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H63013776AAF6482183268444809F6C20"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 301 the following new item:</text>
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<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 301A. Pre-election reports on voting system usage.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H7472768A57E74B9BA729CF06131CD52F"><enum>206.</enum><header>Streamlining collection of election information</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 202 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/20922">52 U.S.C. 20922</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HE038132813E34EB28B25E2F243B6CBD8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>The Commission</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) <header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">In general</header-in-text>.—The Commission</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB92D37476ABB4ECFBE2E4B0650824291"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H302883EC71954144911F14FBC1407AA2" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H95CFA9548EF34878A634A17617D3C85E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Waiver of certain requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subchapter I of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/44/35">chapter 35</external-xref> of title 44, United States Code, shall not apply to the collection of information for purposes of maintaining the clearinghouse described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><enum>III</enum><header>Use of voting machines manufactured in the United States</header>
<section id="HF6477F1773F9413096F396120173280E"><enum>301.</enum><header>Use of voting machines manufactured in the United States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/52/21081">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</external-xref>), as amended by sections 104, 105, 201(a), 201(b), 201(c), and 203(a), is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HDE1E59D4B23E4E23953873171BE9B971"><enum>(14)</enum><header>Voting machine requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">By not later than the date of the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office occurring in November 2022, each State shall seek to ensure that any voting machine used in such election and in any subsequent election for Federal office is manufactured in the United States.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>IV</enum><header>Severability</header>
<section id="HA4810F524A5D44BD8C94040AD4F06519"><enum>401.</enum><header>Severability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">If any provision of this Act or amendment made by this Act, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and amendments made by this Act, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</text>
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Passed the House of Representatives June 27, 2019.Cheryl L. Johnson,Clerk.