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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1529 

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to conduct 

post-election audits for elections for Federal office and to provide attestations of the integrity and security of voter identification and voter registration list maintenance procedures, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 2, 2021 

Mr. WESTERMAN (for himself, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Ms. FOXX, Mr. 

WEBER of Texas, Mr. MAST, and Mr. CRAWFORD) 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 

States to conduct post-election audits for elections for 

Federal office and to provide attestations of the integrity 

and security of voter identification and voter registration 

list maintenance procedures, 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 ‘‘Verification and Over5 sight for Transparent Elections, Registration, and Identi6 fications Act’’ or the ‘‘VOTER ID Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REQUIRING POST-ELECTION AUDITS OF ELECTIONS 

2 FOR FEDERAL OFFICE. 

3 (a) REQUIREMENT.—Subtitle A of title III of the 

4 Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) 

5 is amended— 

6 (1) by redesignating sections 304 and 305 as 

7 sections 305 and 306; and 

8 (2) by inserting after section 303 the following 

9 new section: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 304. POST-ELECTION AUDITS. 

11 ‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—Each State shall conduct an 

12 audit of the results of each regularly scheduled general 

13 election for Federal office held in the State and submit 

14 the audit to the Commission. 

15 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS OF AUDIT.—The audit conducted 

16 under this section with respect to an election shall include 

17 an audit of the accuracy of the voting systems used to 

18 carry out the election, together with an assessment of the 

19 extent to which the State administered the election in com20 pliance with applicable laws, rules, and procedures, includ21 ing laws, rules, and procedures governing requirements for 

22 voter identification, the accuracy of voter registration lists, 

23 the use of absentee and mail-in voting, the effectiveness 

24 of the methods used by the State to ensure that voters 

25 with disabilities were able to cast ballots, the use of provi26 sional ballots, and the timing of the tabulation of ballots. 


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1 ‘‘(c) USE OF DESIGNATED ENTITY.—A State shall 

2 conduct the audit under this section through an entity des3 ignated by the State for purposes of this section which 

4 meets such requirements as the State may provide. 

5 ‘‘(d) PROVISION OF INFORMATION.—The appropriate 

6 State and local election officials shall provide the entity 

7 conducting an audit under this section with such informa8 tion and assistance as the entity may require to conduct 

9 the audit in accordance with the deadline described in sub10 section (a). 

11 ‘‘(e) DISSEMINATION OF AUDITS.— 

12 ‘‘(1) INCLUSION IN SURVEY.—The State shall 

13 include the audit of the results of an election under 

14 this section in the Election Administration and Vot15 ing Survey the State submits to the Commission 

16 with respect to the election. 

17 ‘‘(2) ONLINE AVAILABILITY.—Each State shall 

18 make the audits it conducts under this section pub19 licly available on a website of the State in a search20 able and sortable electronic manner. 

21 ‘‘(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply 

22 with respect to the regularly scheduled general elections 

23 for Federal office held in November 2022 and each suc24 ceeding regularly scheduled general election for Federal 

25 office.’’. 


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1 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO VOL2 UNTARY GUIDANCE OF COMMISSION.— 

3 (1) INCLUSION OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR

4 BEST PRACTICES.—Section 311 of such Act (52 

5 U.S.C. 21101) is amended— 

6 (A) by redesignating subsections (b) and 

7 (c) as subsections (c) and (d); and 

8 (B) by inserting after subsection (a) the 

9 following new subsection: 

10 ‘‘(b) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR GUIDANCE RE11 LATING TO POST-ELECTION AUDITS.—In the case of the 

12 recommendations with respect to the requirement under 

13 section 304 to conduct post-election audits, the following 

14 shall apply: 

15 ‘‘(1) Notwithstanding section 212, the Election 

16 Assistance Commission Standards Board under part 

17 2 of subtitle A of title II shall develop the rec18 ommendations directly. 

19 ‘‘(2) The Standards Board shall include in the 

20 recommendations best practices for conducting the 

21 audits required under section 304. 

22 ‘‘(3) The Standards Board shall include as part 

23 of such best practices— 

24 ‘‘(A) a recommendation that the entity 

25 conducting the audits is bipartisan; and 


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1 ‘‘(B) a recommendation that, in the case of 

2 an election for the office of Senator or Rep3 resentative in Congress (including an election 

4 for the office of Delegate or Resident Commis5 sioner to the Congress), the State complete the 

6 audit of the results of the election not later 

7 than 30 days after the State certifies the re8 sults of the election.’’. 

9 (2) TIMING.—Subsection (c) of section 311 of 

10 such Act (52 U.S.C. 21101), as redesignated by 

11 paragraph (1), is amended— 

12 (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para13 graph (2); 

14 (B) by striking the period at the end of 

15 paragraph (3) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

16 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

17 paragraph: 

18 ‘‘(4) in the case of the recommendations with 

19 respect to section 304, January 1, 2022.’’. 

20 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO EN21 FORCEMENT.—Section 401 of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21111) 

22 is amended by striking ‘‘sections 301, 302, and 303’’ and 

23 inserting ‘‘subtitle A of title III’’. 

24 (d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

25 of such Act is amended— 


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1 (1) by redesignating the items relating to sec2 tions 304 and 305 as relating to sections 305 and 

3 306; and 

4 (2) by inserting after the item relating to sec5 tion 303 the following: 

‘‘Sec. 304. Post-election audits.’’. 

6 SEC. 3. ATTESTATIONS OF INTEGRITY OF VOTER IDENTI7 FICATION PROCEDURES AND VOTER REG8 ISTRATION LIST MAINTENANCE. 

9 (a) REQUIRING ATTESTATIONS.—Subtitle A of title 

10 III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 

11 21081 et seq.), as amended by section 2(a), is further 

12 amended— 

13 (1) by redesignating sections 305 and 306 as 

14 sections 306 and 307; and 

15 (2) by inserting after section 304 the following 

16 new section: 

17 ‘‘SEC. 305. ATTESTATIONS OF INTEGRITY OF PROCEDURES. 

18 ‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—Each State shall include in the 

19 Policy Survey submitted to the Commission with respect 

20 to a regularly scheduled general election for Federal office 

21 the following attestations: 

22 ‘‘(1) An attestation that the State has in effect 

23 voter identification procedures and practices which 

24 will ensure the integrity and security of the election 

25 by providing a secure method to match voters with 


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1 the information contained in the State’s voter reg2 istration list. 

3 ‘‘(2) An attestation that the State has in effect 

4 procedures and practices which will ensure the integ5 rity and security of the State’s voter registration list 

6 by performing regular maintenance of the list in ac7 cordance with applicable Federal and State law. 

8 ‘‘(b) INCLUSION OF INFORMATION FROM POST9 ELECTION AUDITS.—Each State shall include in the at10 testations submitted under subsection (a) the results of 

11 the most recent post-election audit conducted by the State 

12 under section 304 with respect to the information provided 

13 in the attestation. 

14 ‘‘(c) ONLINE AVAILABILITY.—Each State shall make 

15 the attestations under this section publicly available on a 

16 website of the State in a searchable and sortable electronic 

17 manner. 

18 ‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply 

19 with respect to the regularly scheduled general elections 

20 for Federal office held in November 2022 and each suc21 ceeding regularly scheduled general election for Federal 

22 office.’’. 

23 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

24 of such Act, as amended by section 2(d), is further amend25 ed— 


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1 (1) by redesignating the items relating to sec2 tions 305 and 306 as relating to sections 306 and 

3 307; and 

4 (2) by inserting after the item relating to sec5 tion 304 the following: 

‘‘Sec. 305. Attestations of integrity of procedures.’’. 

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