‘‘(2) PUBLICATION.—Upon receipt of the infor-
mation required under subsection (1), the Commis-
sion shall make such information available to elec-
tion officials and the public. If the Commission re-
vokes, terminates, or suspends the accreditation of a 
laboratory under this section, the Commission shall 
promptly notify Congress, the chief State election of-
ficial of each State, and the public. 
‘‘(f) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each accredited laboratory 
shall provide an annual report to the Commission 
and the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology that sets out the following: 
‘‘(A) The methods and protocols the lab-
oratory used to test, certify, decertify and recer-
tify machines under this section. 
‘‘(B) A list of the directors and officers of 
the firm, and the background and qualifications 
of those individuals, including whether any indi-
vidual has ever been convicted of a crime involv-
ing election, accounting, or computer security 
fraud. 
‘‘(C) The results of the tests, certifications, 
decertifications and re-certifications conducted 
under this section in the preceding year. 
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‘‘(2) PUBLICATION.—The Commission, in con-
sultation with the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, shall submit an annual report to 
the Congress on the laboratory testing and certifi-
cation process conducted under this section, includ-
ing a summary of the reports it receives under para-
graph (1) of this subsection.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 231 of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 15371) is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘testing, 
certification,’’ and all that follows and inserting the 
following: ‘‘testing of voting system hardware and 
software by accredited laboratories in connection 
with the certification, decertification, and recertifi-
cation of the hardware and software for purposes of 
this Act.’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘testing, 
certification,’’ and all that follows and inserting the 
following: ‘‘testing of its voting system hardware and 
software by the laboratories accredited by the Com-
mission under this section in connection with certi-
fying, decertifying, and recertifying the hardware 
and software.’’; 
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(3) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘testing, 
certification, decertification, and recertification’’ and 
inserting ‘‘testing’’; and 
(4) in subsection (i) (as redesignated above), by 
striking ‘‘testing, certification, decertification, and 
recertification’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘testing’’. 
(c) DEADLINE FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARDS 
AND ESCROW ACCOUNT.—The Election Assistance Com-
mission shall establish the standards described in section 
231(d)(1)(B) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and 
the Testing Escrow Account described in section 231(c)(1) 
of such Act by not later than January 1, 2008. 
TITLE II—PROVISIONAL 
BALLOTS 
SEC. 201. REQUIREMENTS FOR CASTING AND COUNTING 
PROVISIONAL BALLOTS. 
(a) ELIGIBILITY OF PROVISIONAL BALLOTS.—Para-
graph (4) of section 302(a) of the Help America Vote Act 
of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15482(a)(4)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘A properly reg-
istered voter who casts a provisional ballot in the county 
(or equivalent jurisdiction) in which the individual is reg-
istered to vote shall have the ballot counted as a vote in 
all races in which the individual is eligible to vote. A provi-
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sional ballot cast by an eligible and registered voter shall 
be counted as a vote without regard to any requirement 
to present identification to an election official.’’. 
(b) PROVISIONAL BALLOT
AS APPLICATION
FOR 
VOTER REGISTRATION.—Section 302(a) of such Act is 
amended by inserting after paragraph (5) the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) If the appropriate State or local election 
official determines that the individual who cast the 
provisional ballot is not registered to vote in the 
election, the provisional ballot shall be treated as an 
application to register the individual to vote in the 
next election for Federal office in that State. If the 
State or local election official determines that the in-
dividual is registered to vote in the election, the offi-
cial shall use the information in the provisional bal-
lot to update the voters registration records.’’. 
(c) TIMELY PROCESSING OF BALLOTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 302(a) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 15482(a)), as amended by subsection (c), 
is amended by inserting after paragraph (5) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) The appropriate State election official 
shall develop, according to guidelines established by 
the Election Assistance Commission, reasonable pro-
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