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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 278

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voting systems 

to produce a verifiable paper record of each vote cast and to ensure 

the security of electronic data, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 6, 2005

Mr. KING of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on House Administration 

A BILL

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require 

voting systems to produce a verifiable paper record of 

each vote cast and to ensure the security of electronic 

data, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Know Your Vote 

5 Counts Act of 2005’’. 
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1 SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTING SYS2 TEMS. 

3 (a) PRODUCTION OF PERMANENT, INDIVIDUALLY

4 VERIFIABLE PAPER RECORD OF EACH VOTE CAST.—Sec5 tion 301(a)(2)(B) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 

6 (42 U.S.C. 15481(a)(2)(B)) is amended—

7 (1) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); 

8 and 

9 (2) by striking clauses (i) and (ii) and inserting 

10 the following: 

11 ‘‘(i) After the voter enters a vote on 

12 the voting system, the system shall provide 

13 the voter with an auditable paper record 

14 showing how the vote will be recorded by 

15 the system, and the voter shall use such 

16 record to verify that the vote shown is the 

17 vote the voter intends to cast. 

18 ‘‘(ii) If the voter does not verify that 

19 the vote shown on a record provided under 

20 clause (i) is the vote the voter intends to 

21 cast, the system shall provide the voter 

22 with the opportunity to change the ballot 

23 and correct any error in the vote, and shall 

24 provide the voter with a new auditable 

25 paper record under such clause that re-
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1 flects the change or correction made by the 

2 voter. 

3 ‘‘(iii) Once a voter verifies that the 

4 vote shown on a paper record provided 

5 under clause (i) is the vote the voter in6 tends to cast (whether verified as originally 

7 entered or as changed and corrected as de8 scribed in clause (ii)), the vote shall be 

9 final and the record shall serve as a per10 manent paper record of the vote.’’. 

11 (b) PROHIBITING REMOVAL OF PAPER RECORD

12 FROM POLLING PLACE; CLARIFYING PURPOSES FOR

13 WHICH RECORD MAY BE USED.—Clause (iv) of section 

14 301(a)(2)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 15481(a)(2)(B)), as 

15 redesignated by subsection (a)(1), is amended by striking 

16 the period at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, and 

17 for such other official purposes as may be provided under 

18 State law, and may be removed from the polling place by 

19 and otherwise made available to an appropriate election 

20 official for such purposes, but the record (including any 

21 duplicate of the record or any photographic image of the 

22 record) may not be removed from the polling place by any 

23 other person or for any other purpose.’’. 

24 (c) REQUIRING VOLUNTARY VOTING SYSTEM GUIDE25 LINES TO INCLUDE GUIDELINES TO ENSURE SECURITY
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1 OF ELECTRONIC DATA.—Section 221(b)(1) of such Act 

2 (42 U.S.C. 15361(b)(1)) is amended by striking the period 

3 at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, including guide4 lines to ensure the security of any data which is trans5 mitted or received electronically by voting systems’’. 

6 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

7 The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 

8 as if included in the enactment of the Help America Vote 

9 Act of 2002.

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