I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6200 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to conduct 
Presidential elections using paper ballots and to count those ballots 
by hand, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2006 
Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. CLAY, Mr. 
CONYERS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. HASTINGS 
of Florida, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of 
Texas, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. LEE, 
Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mrs. MALONEY, Ms. SOLIS, Ms. WA-
TERS, and Ms. WOOLSEY) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the 
Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require 
States to conduct Presidential elections using paper bal-
lots and to count those ballots by hand, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Paper Ballot Act of 
2006’’. 
SEC. 2. REQUIRING USE OF HAND-COUNTED PAPER BAL-
LOTS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. 
Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 
(42 U.S.C. 15481(a)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) SPECIAL RULES FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELEC-
TIONS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
subsection, in the case of a regularly scheduled gen-
eral election for the electors of President and Vice 
President (beginning with the election in November 
2008), the following rules shall apply: 
‘‘(A) The State shall conduct the election 
using only paper ballots. 
‘‘(B) The State shall ensure that the num-
ber of ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent lo-
cation which are placed inside a single box or 
similar container does not exceed 500. 
‘‘(C) The ballots cast at a precinct or 
equivalent location shall be counted by hand by 
election officials at the precinct, and a rep-
resentative of each political party with a can-
didate on the ballot, as well as any interested 
member of the public, may observe the officials 
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as they count the ballots. The previous sentence 
shall not apply with respect to provisional bal-
lots cast under section 302(a).’’. 
SEC. 3. MOVING OBSERVATION OF WASHINGTON’S BIRTH-
DAY 
TO 
ELECTION 
DAY 
DURING 
PRESI-
DENTIAL ELECTION YEARS. 
Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘the Tuesday next after the 
first Monday in November in 2008 and every fourth 
year thereafter, and’’ after ‘‘Washington’s Birth-
day,’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘in any other year’’ after ‘‘Feb-
ruary’’. 
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