[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4393. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1064. PROVIDING END-TO-END ELECTRONIC VOTING SERVICES 
                   FOR ABSENT UNIFORMED SERVICES VOTERS IN 
                   LOCATIONS WITH LIMITED OR IMMATURE POSTAL 
                   SERVICE.

       (a) Plan.--
       (1) Development.--In consultation with the Chief 
     Information Officer of the Department of Defense, the 
     Presidential designee under the Uniformed and Overseas 
     Citizens Absentee Voting Act (52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.) shall 
     develop a plan for providing end-to-end electronic voting 
     services (including services for registering to vote, 
     requesting an electronic ballot, completing the ballot, and 
     returning the ballot) in participating States for absent 
     uniformed services voters under such Act who are deployed or 
     mobilized to locations with limited or immature postal 
     service (as determined by the Presidential designee).
       (2) Specifications.--The Presidential designee shall 
     include in the plan developed under paragraph (1)--
       (A) methods to ensure that voters have the opportunity to 
     verify that their ballots are received and tabulated 
     correctly by the appropriate State and local election 
     officials;
       (B) methods to generate a verifiable and auditable vote 
     trail for the purposes of any recount or audit conducted with 
     respect to an election; and
       (C) an assessment of whether commercially available 
     technologies may be used to carry out any of the elements of 
     the plan.
       (3) Consultation with state and local election officials.--
     The Presidential designee shall develop the plan under 
     paragraph (1) in consultation with appropriate State and 
     local election officials to ensure that the plan may be 
     implemented successfully in any State which agrees to 
     participate in the plan.
       (4) Use of contractors.--To the extent the Presidential 
     designee determines to be appropriate, the Presidential 
     designee may include in the plan developed under paragraph 
     (1) provisions for the use of contractors to carry out any of 
     the elements of the plan.
       (5) Submission.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Presidential designee shall 
     submit the plan developed under paragraph (1) to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives 
     and Senate.
       (b) Implementation.--If the Presidential designee 
     determines it feasible, the Presidential designee shall 
     implement the plan developed under subsection (a)--
       (1) for a trial group of voters in participating States for 
     elections for Federal office held in 2024; and
       (2) for all such voters in participating States for 
     elections for Federal office held in 2026 and any succeeding 
     year.
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