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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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Know Your Vote 
Counts Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTING SYS-
TEMS. 
(a) PRODUCTION
OF PERMANENT, INDIVIDUALLY 
VERIFIABLE PAPER RECORD OF EACH VOTE CAST.—Sec-
tion 301(a)(2)(B) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 
(42 U.S.C. 15481(a)(2)(B)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); 
and 
(2) by striking clauses (i) and (ii) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(i) After the voter enters a vote on 
the voting system, the system shall provide 
the voter with an auditable paper record 
showing how the vote will be recorded by 
the system, and the voter shall use such 
record to verify that the vote shown is the 
vote the voter intends to cast. 
‘‘(ii) If the voter does not verify that 
the vote shown on a record provided under 
clause (i) is the vote the voter intends to 
cast, the system shall provide the voter 
with the opportunity to change the ballot 
and correct any error in the vote, and shall 
provide the voter with a new auditable 
paper record under such clause that re-
flects the change or correction made by the 
voter. 
‘‘(iii) Once a voter verifies that the 
vote shown on a paper record provided 
under clause (i) is the vote the voter in-
tends to cast (whether verified as originally 
entered or as changed and corrected as de-
scribed in clause (ii)), the vote shall be 
final and the record shall serve as a per-
manent paper record of the vote.’’. 
(b) PROHIBITING REMOVAL
OF PAPER RECORD 
FROM POLLING PLACE; CLARIFYING PURPOSES
FOR 
WHICH RECORD MAY BE USED.—Clause (iv) of section 
301(a)(2)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 15481(a)(2)(B)), as 
redesignated by subsection (a)(1), is amended by striking 
the period at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, and 
for such other official purposes as may be provided under 
State law, and may be removed from the polling place by 
and otherwise made available to an appropriate election 
official for such purposes, but the record (including any 
duplicate of the record or any photographic image of the 
record) may not be removed from the polling place by any 
other person or for any other purpose.’’. 
(c) REQUIRING VOLUNTARY VOTING SYSTEM GUIDE-
LINES TO INCLUDE GUIDELINES TO ENSURE SECURITY
OF ELECTRONIC DATA.—Section 221(b)(1) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 15361(b)(1)) is amended by striking the period 
at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, including guide-
lines to ensure the security of any data which is trans-
mitted or received electronically by voting systems’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 
as if included in the enactment of the Help America Vote 
Act of 2002.
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