‘‘(2) VOTER-VERIFICATION AND AUDIT CAPAC-
ITY.—
‘‘(A) VOTER-VERIFICATION IN GENERAL.—
The voting system shall produce a voter-verified 
paper record suitable for a manual audit equiv-
alent or superior to that of a paper ballot box 
system, as further specified in subparagraph 
(B). 
‘‘(B) MANUAL AUDIT CAPACITY.—
‘‘(i) The voting system shall produce a 
permanent paper record, each individual 
paper record of which shall be made avail-
able for inspection and verification by the 
voter at the time the vote is cast, and pre-
served within the polling place in the man-
ner in which all other paper ballots are 
preserved within the polling place on Elec-
tion Day for later use in any manual audit. 
‘‘(ii) The voting system shall provide 
the voter with an opportunity to correct 
any error made by the system before the 
permanent record is preserved for use in 
any manual audit. 
‘‘(iii) The voter verified paper record 
produced under subparagraph (A) and this
subparagraph shall be available as an offi-
cial record and shall be the official record 
used for any recount conducted with re-
spect to any election in which the system 
is used. 
‘‘(C) SOFTWARE AND MODEMS.—
‘‘(i) No voting system shall at any 
time contain or use undisclosed software. 
Any voting system containing or using 
software shall disclose the source code of 
that software to the Commission, and the 
Commission shall make that source code 
available for inspection upon request to 
any citizen. 
‘‘(ii) No voting system shall contain 
any wireless communication device at all. 
‘‘(iii) All software and hardware used 
in any electronic voting system shall be 
certified by laboratories accredited by the
Commission as meeting the requirements 
of clauses (i) and (ii).’’. 
(b) VOTER VERIFICATION OF RESULTS FOR INDIVID-
UALS WITH DISABILITIES.—Section 301(a)(3) of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 15481(a)(3) is amended—
(1) in the heading, by inserting ‘‘AND VOTER-
VERIFICATION OF RESULTS’’ after ‘‘ACCESSIBILITY’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘, and such voting sys-
tem shall provide a mechanism for voter-verification 
of results which separates the function of vote gen-
eration from the function of vote casting in a man-
ner analogous to that described in section 4 with re-
spect to the separation of paper ballot generation 
and paper ballot verification and preservation, but 
does not require the use of paper.’’; 
(3) by amending subparagraph (C) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(C) The equipment deployed in accord-
ance with subparagraph (B) shall meet the vot-
ing system standards for disability access and 
voter-verification of results as outlined in this 
paragraph in accordance with the deadline set 
forth in section 5(a), provided that if it does 
not and an interim paper system is deployed in 
accordance with section 5(b), disabled voters 
shall have the option of using the interim paper 
system with the assistance of an aide of the vot-
er’s personal selection or using the voting sys-
tem otherwise put in place for use by disabled
voters at the time in question in accordance 
with the Help America Vote Act of 2002, as in 
effect prior to the enactment of this Act, except 
that 
the 
deadline 
set 
forth 
in 
section 
301(a)(3)(C) 
of 
such 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
15481(a)(3)(C)) is moved forward from Janu-
ary 1, 2007, to January 1, 2006.’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(D) Election officials shall be instructed 
in the rights of the disabled to vote with the as-
sistance of an aide of their selection under the 
Voting Rights Act of 1965.’’. 
(c) SPECIFIC, DELINEATED
REQUIREMENT
OF 
STUDY, TESTING, AND DEVELOPMENT OF BEST PRAC-
TICES.—In addition to any other requirements under the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002, the Election Assistance 
Commission shall study, test, and develop best practices 
to enhance accessibility and voter-verification mechanisms 
for disabled voters. 
SEC. 5. CHANGE IN DEADLINE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH 
STANDARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 301(d) of the Help Amer-
ica Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15481(d)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘on and after January 1, 2006’’ and inserting
‘‘in time for elections for Federal office beginning with the 
regularly scheduled general election to be held in Novem-
ber 2004’’. 
(b) INTERIM PAPER SYSTEM.—Each State and juris-
diction that certifies in the manner described in section 
102(a)(3)(B) that it shall be unable to comply with the 
requirements of section 301 in time for the regularly 
scheduled general election for Federal office to be held in 
November 2004 shall receive a paper voting system, based 
on paper systems in use in the jurisdiction, if any, at the 
expense of the Commission that shall be deemed compliant 
with section 301 by the Commission for use in the Novem-
ber 2004 general elections. 
SEC. 6. REQUIREMENT FOR FEDERAL CERTIFICATION OF 
TECHNOLOGICAL SECURITY OF VOTER REG-
ISTRATION LISTS. 
Section 303(a)(3) of the Help America Vote Act of 
2002 (42 U.S.C. 15483(a)(3)) is amended by striking the 
period at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, as cer-
tified by the Commission.’’. 
SEC. 7. REQUIREMENT FOR MANDATORY RECOUNTS. 
The Election Assistance Commission shall conduct 
manual mandatory surprise recounts of the voter-verified 
records of each election for Federal office (and, at the op-
tion of the State or jurisdiction involved, of elections for