I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2660 
To protect elections for public office by providing financial support and 
enhanced security for the infrastructure used to carry out such elections, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 10, 2019 
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. SARBANES, 
Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mrs. DAVIS of California, 
Mrs. DEMINGS, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. 
PAYNE, Mr. AGUILAR, Miss RICE of New York, Mr. ROSE of New York, 
Ms. UNDERWOOD, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. GREEN of Texas, 
Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. 
TITUS, Ms. TORRES SMALL of New Mexico, and Mr. CORREA) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Admin-
istration, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Intel-
ligence (Permanent Select), Science, Space, and Technology, Foreign Af-
fairs, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To protect elections for public office by providing financial 
support and enhanced security for the infrastructure 
used to carry out such elections, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Election Security Act of 2019’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ELECTION INFRASTRUCTURE 
Subtitle A—Voting System Security Improvement Grants 
PART 1—PROMOTING ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, AND SECURITY THROUGH 
VOTER-VERIFIED PERMANENT PAPER BALLOT 
Sec. 101. Short title. 
Sec. 102. Paper ballot and manual counting requirements. 
Sec. 103. Accessibility and ballot verification for individuals with disabilities. 
Sec. 104. Durability and readability requirements for ballots. 
Sec. 105. Paper ballot printing requirements. 
Sec. 106. Study and report on optimal ballot design. 
Sec. 107. Effective date for new requirements. 
PART 2—GRANTS TO CARRY OUT IMPROVEMENTS 
Sec. 111. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and car-
rying out voting system security improvements. 
‘‘PART 7—GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT PAPER BALLOT VOTING 
SYSTEMS AND CARRYING OUT VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS 
‘‘Sec. 297. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and 
carrying out voting system security improvements. 
‘‘Sec. 297A. Voting system security improvements described. 
‘‘Sec. 297B. Eligibility of States. 
‘‘Sec. 297C. Reports to Congress. 
‘‘Sec. 297D. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 112. Coordination of voting system security activities with use of require-
ments payments and election administration requirements 
under Help America Vote Act of 2002. 
Sec. 113. Incorporation of definitions. 
Subtitle B—Grants for Risk-Limiting Audits of Results of Elections 
Sec. 121. Grants to States for conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elec-
tions. 
‘‘PART 8—GRANTS FOR CONDUCTING RISK-LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS 
OF ELECTIONS 
‘‘Sec. 298. Grants for conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elec-
tions. 
‘‘Sec. 298A. Eligibility of States. 
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‘‘Sec. 298B. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 122. GAO analysis of effects of audits. 
Subtitle C—Election Infrastructure Innovation Grant Program 
Sec. 131. Election infrastructure innovation grant program. 
TITLE II—SECURITY MEASURES 
Sec. 201. Election infrastructure designation. 
Sec. 202. Timely threat information. 
Sec. 203. Security clearance assistance for election officials. 
Sec. 204. Security risk and vulnerability assessments. 
Sec. 205. Annual reports. 
Sec. 206. Pre-election threat assessments. 
TITLE III—ENHANCING PROTECTIONS FOR UNITED STATES 
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS 
Sec. 301. National strategy to protect United States democratic institutions. 
Sec. 302. National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institu-
tions. 
TITLE IV—PROMOTING CYBERSECURITY THROUGH 
IMPROVEMENTS IN ELECTION ADMINISTRATION 
Sec. 401. Testing of existing voting systems to ensure compliance with election 
cybersecurity guidelines and other guidelines. 
Sec. 402. Treatment of electronic poll books as part of voting systems. 
Sec. 403. Pre-election reports on voting system usage. 
Sec. 404. Streamlining collection of election information. 
TITLE V—PREVENTING ELECTION HACKING 
Sec. 501. Short title. 
Sec. 502. Election Security Bug Bounty Program. 
Sec. 503. Definitions. 
TITLE VI—ELECTION SECURITY GRANTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Sec. 601. Establishment of advisory committee. 
TITLE VII—USE OF VOTING MACHINES MANUFACTURED IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
Sec. 701. Use of voting machines manufactured in the United States. 
TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 801. Definitions. 
Sec. 802. Initial report on adequacy of resources available for implementation. 
TITLE IX—SEVERABILITY 
Sec. 901. Severability. 
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TITLE I—FINANCIAL SUPPORT 
FOR ELECTION INFRASTRUC-
TURE 
Subtitle A—Voting System Security 
Improvement Grants 
PART 1—PROMOTING ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, 
AND SECURITY THROUGH VOTER-VERIFIED 
PERMANENT PAPER BALLOT 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Voter Confidence 
and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 102. PAPER BALLOT AND MANUAL COUNTING RE-
QUIREMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 301(a)(2) of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(2)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) PAPER BALLOT REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(A) VOTER-VERIFIED PAPER BALLOTS.— 
‘‘(i) PAPER BALLOT REQUIREMENT.— 
(I) The voting system shall require the use 
of an individual, durable, voter-verified 
paper ballot of the voter’s vote that shall 
be marked and made available for inspec-
tion and verification by the voter before 
the voter’s vote is cast and counted, and 
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which shall be counted by hand or read by 
an optical character recognition device or 
other counting device. For purposes of this 
subclause, the term ‘individual, durable, 
voter-verified paper ballot’ means a paper 
ballot marked by the voter by hand or a 
paper ballot marked through the use of a 
nontabulating ballot marking device or sys-
tem, so long as the voter shall have the op-
tion to mark his or her ballot by hand. 
‘‘(II) The voting system shall provide 
the voter with an opportunity to correct 
any error on the paper ballot before the 
permanent voter-verified paper ballot is 
preserved in accordance with clause (ii). 
‘‘(III) The voting system shall not 
preserve the voter-verified paper ballots in 
any manner that makes it possible, at any 
time after the ballot has been cast, to asso-
ciate a voter with the record of the voter’s 
vote without the voter’s consent. 
‘‘(ii) PRESERVATION
AS
OFFICIAL 
RECORD.—The individual, durable, voter- 
verified paper ballot used in accordance 
with clause (i) shall constitute the official 
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ballot and shall be preserved and used as 
the official ballot for purposes of any re-
count or audit conducted with respect to 
any election for Federal office in which the 
voting system is used. 
‘‘(iii) MANUAL
COUNTING
REQUIRE-
MENTS FOR RECOUNTS AND AUDITS.—(I) 
Each paper ballot used pursuant to clause 
(i) shall be suitable for a manual audit, 
and shall be counted by hand in any re-
count or audit conducted with respect to 
any election for Federal office. 
‘‘(II) In the event of any inconsist-
encies or irregularities between any elec-
tronic vote tallies and the vote tallies de-
termined by counting by hand the indi-
vidual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots 
used pursuant to clause (i), and subject to 
subparagraph (B), the individual, durable, 
voter-verified paper ballots shall be the 
true and correct record of the votes cast. 
‘‘(iv) APPLICATION
TO
ALL
BAL-
LOTS.—The requirements of this subpara-
graph shall apply to all ballots cast in elec-
tions for Federal office, including ballots 
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otherwise) and that a sufficient num-
ber of the ballots have been so com-
promised that the result of the elec-
tion could be changed, 
the determination of the appropriate rem-
edy with respect to the election shall be 
made in accordance with applicable State 
law, except that the electronic tally shall 
not be used as the exclusive basis for de-
termining the official certified result. 
‘‘(ii) RULE FOR CONSIDERATION OF 
BALLOTS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH VOTING 
MACHINE.—For purposes of clause (i), 
only the paper ballots deemed com-
promised, if any, shall be considered in the 
calculation of whether or not the result of 
the election could be changed due to the 
compromised paper ballots.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT CLARIFYING APPLI-
CABILITY OF ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE ACCESSIBILITY.— 
Section 301(a)(4) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(4)) 
is amended by inserting ‘‘(including the paper ballots re-
quired to be used under paragraph (2))’’ after ‘‘voting sys-
tem’’. 
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(c) OTHER CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 
301(a)(1) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(1)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ‘‘count-
ed’’ and inserting ‘‘counted, in accordance with 
paragraphs (2) and (3)’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking ‘‘count-
ed’’ and inserting ‘‘counted, in accordance with 
paragraphs (2) and (3)’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking ‘‘count-
ed’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘counted, in 
accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)’’; and 
(4) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ‘‘count-
ed’’ and inserting ‘‘counted, in accordance with 
paragraphs (2) and (3)’’. 
SEC. 103. ACCESSIBILITY AND BALLOT VERIFICATION FOR 
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 301(a)(3)(B) of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(3)(B)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(B)(i) ensure that individuals with dis-
abilities and others are given an equivalent op-
portunity to vote, including with privacy and 
independence, in a manner that produces a 
voter-verified paper ballot as for other voters; 
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‘‘(ii) satisfy the requirement of subpara-
graph (A) through the use of at least one voting 
system equipped for individuals with disabil-
ities, including nonvisual and enhanced visual 
accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, 
and nonmanual and enhanced manual accessi-
bility for the mobility and dexterity impaired, at 
each polling place; and 
‘‘(iii) meet the requirements of subpara-
graph (A) and paragraph (2)(A) by using a sys-
tem that— 
‘‘(I) allows the voter to privately and 
independently verify the permanent paper 
ballot through the presentation, in acces-
sible form, of the printed or marked vote 
selections from the same printed or 
marked information that would be used for 
any vote counting or auditing; and 
‘‘(II) allows the voter to privately and 
independently verify and cast the perma-
nent paper ballot without requiring the 
voter to manually handle the paper bal-
lot;’’. 
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(b) SPECIFIC REQUIREMENT OF STUDY, TESTING, 
AND DEVELOPMENT
OF ACCESSIBLE PAPER BALLOT 
VERIFICATION MECHANISMS.— 
(1) STUDY
AND
REPORTING.—Subtitle C of 
title II of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(A) by redesignating section 247 as section 
248; and 
(B) by inserting after section 246 the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘SEC. 247. STUDY AND REPORT ON ACCESSIBLE PAPER 
BALLOT VERIFICATION MECHANISMS. 
‘‘(a) STUDY AND REPORT.—The Director of the Na-
tional Science Foundation shall make grants to not fewer 
than 3 eligible entities to study, test, and develop acces-
sible paper ballot voting, verification, and casting mecha-
nisms and devices and best practices to enhance the acces-
sibility of paper ballot voting and verification mechanisms 
for individuals with disabilities, for voters whose primary 
language is not English, and for voters with difficulties 
in literacy, including best practices for the mechanisms 
themselves and the processes through which the mecha-
nisms are used. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—An entity is eligible to receive a 
grant under this part if it submits to the Director (at such 
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time and in such form as the Director may require) an 
application containing— 
‘‘(1) certifications that the entity shall specifi-
cally investigate enhanced methods or devices, in-
cluding non-electronic devices, that will assist such 
individuals and voters in marking voter-verified 
paper ballots and presenting or transmitting the in-
formation printed or marked on such ballots back to 
such individuals and voters, and casting such ballots; 
‘‘(2) a certification that the entity shall com-
plete the activities carried out with the grant not 
later than December 31, 2020; and 
‘‘(3) such other information and certifications 
as the Director may require. 
‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY
OF TECHNOLOGY.—Any tech-
nology developed with the grants made under this section 
shall be treated as non-proprietary and shall be made 
available to the public, including to manufacturers of vot-
ing systems. 
‘‘(d) COORDINATION WITH GRANTS
FOR TECH-
NOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS.—The Director shall carry out 
this section so that the activities carried out with the 
grants made under subsection (a) are coordinated with the 
research conducted under the grant program carried out 
by the Commission under section 271, to the extent that 
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the Director and Commission determine necessary to pro-
vide for the advancement of accessible voting technology. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsection 
(a) $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of such Act is amended— 
(A) by redesignating the item relating to 
section 247 as relating to section 248; and 
(B) by inserting after the item relating to 
section 246 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 247. Study and report on accessible paper ballot verification mecha-
nisms.’’. 
(c) CLARIFICATION OF ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS 
UNDER VOLUNTARY VOTING SYSTEM GUIDANCE.—In 
adopting any voluntary guidance under subtitle B of title 
III of the Help America Vote Act with respect to the ac-
cessibility of the paper ballot verification requirements for 
individuals with disabilities, the Election Assistance Com-
mission shall include and apply the same accessibility 
standards applicable under the voluntary guidance adopt-
ed for accessible voting systems under such subtitle. 
(d) PERMITTING USE OF FUNDS FOR PROTECTION 
AND ADVOCACY SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT ACTIONS TO EN-
FORCE ELECTION-RELATED DISABILITY ACCESS.—Sec-
tion 292(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 
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U.S.C. 21062(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘; except that’’ 
and all that follows and inserting a period. 
SEC. 104. DURABILITY AND READABILITY REQUIREMENTS 
FOR BALLOTS. 
Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 
(52 U.S.C. 21081(a)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) DURABILITY AND READABILITY REQUIRE-
MENTS FOR BALLOTS.— 
‘‘(A) DURABILITY
REQUIREMENTS
FOR 
PAPER BALLOTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—All voter-verified 
paper ballots required to be used under 
this Act shall be marked or printed on du-
rable paper. 
‘‘(ii) DEFINITION.—For purposes of 
this Act, paper is ‘durable’ if it is capable 
of withstanding multiple counts and re-
counts by hand without compromising the 
fundamental integrity of the ballots, and 
capable 
of 
retaining 
the 
information 
marked or printed on them for the full du-
ration of a retention and preservation pe-
riod of 22 months. 
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‘‘(B) READABILITY
REQUIREMENTS
FOR 
PAPER BALLOTS MARKED BY BALLOT MARKING 
DEVICE.—All voter-verified paper ballots com-
pleted by the voter through the use of a ballot 
marking device shall be clearly readable by the 
voter without assistance (other than eyeglasses 
or other personal vision enhancing devices) and 
by an optical character recognition device or 
other device equipped for individuals with dis-
abilities.’’. 
SEC. 105. PAPER BALLOT PRINTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) REQUIRING PAPER BALLOTS TO BE PRINTED ON 
RECYCLED
PAPER
MANUFACTURED
IN
UNITED 
STATES.—Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act 
of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081(a)), as amended by section 104, 
is amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(8) PRINTING
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
BAL-
LOTS.—All paper ballots used in an election for Fed-
eral office shall be printed in the United States on 
recycled paper manufactured in the United States.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to elections occur-
ring on or after January 1, 2021. 
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SEC. 106. STUDY AND REPORT ON OPTIMAL BALLOT DE-
SIGN. 
(a) STUDY.—The Election Assistance Commission 
shall conduct a study of the best ways to design ballots 
used in elections for public office, including paper ballots 
and electronic or digital ballots, to minimize confusion and 
user errors. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than January 1, 2020, the 
Election Assistance Commission shall submit to Congress 
a report on the study conducted under subsection (a). 
SEC. 107. EFFECTIVE DATE FOR NEW REQUIREMENTS. 
Section 301(d) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 
(52 U.S.C. 21081(d)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), each State and jurisdiction shall be re-
quired to comply with the requirements of this sec-
tion on and after January 1, 2006. 
‘‘(2) SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
CERTAIN
REQUIRE-
MENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
section 105(b) of the Election Security Act of 
2019 and subparagraphs (B) and (C), the re-
quirements of this section which are first im-
posed on a State and jurisdiction pursuant to 
the amendments made by the Voter Confidence 
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and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019 shall 
apply with respect to voting systems used for 
any election for Federal office held in 2020 or 
any succeeding year. 
‘‘(B) DELAY
FOR
JURISDICTIONS
USING 
CERTAIN PAPER RECORD PRINTERS OR CERTAIN 
SYSTEMS
USING
OR
PRODUCING
VOTER- 
VERIFIABLE PAPER RECORDS IN 2018.— 
‘‘(i) DELAY.—In the case of a juris-
diction described in clause (ii), subpara-
graph (A) shall apply to a voting system in 
the jurisdiction as if the reference in such 
subparagraph to ‘2020’ were a reference to 
‘2022’, but only with respect to the fol-
lowing requirements of this section: 
‘‘(I) Paragraph (2)(A)(i)(I) of 
subsection (a) (relating to the use of 
voter-verified paper ballots). 
‘‘(II) Paragraph (3)(B)(ii)(I) and 
(II) of subsection (a) (relating to ac-
cess to verification from and casting 
of the durable paper ballot). 
‘‘(III) Paragraph (7) of sub-
section (a) (relating to durability and 
readability requirements for ballots). 
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‘‘(ii) JURISDICTIONS
DESCRIBED.—A 
jurisdiction described in this clause is a ju-
risdiction— 
‘‘(I) which used voter verifiable 
paper record printers attached to di-
rect recording electronic voting ma-
chines, or which used other voting 
systems that used or produced paper 
records of the vote verifiable by voters 
but that are not in compliance with 
paragraphs (2)(A)(i)(I), (3)(B)(iii)(I) 
and (II), and (7) of subsection (a) (as 
amended or added by the Voter Con-
fidence and Increased Accessibility 
Act of 2019), for the administration 
of the regularly scheduled general 
election for Federal office held in No-
vember 2018; and 
‘‘(II) which will continue to use 
such printers or systems for the ad-
ministration of elections for Federal 
office held in years before 2022. 
‘‘(iii) MANDATORY
AVAILABILITY
OF 
PAPER
BALLOTS
AT
POLLING
PLACES 
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USING
GRANDFATHERED
PRINTERS
AND 
SYSTEMS.— 
‘‘(I) REQUIRING BALLOTS TO BE 
OFFERED
AND
PROVIDED.—The ap-
propriate election official at each poll-
ing place that uses a printer or sys-
tem described in clause (ii)(I) for the 
administration of elections for Federal 
office shall offer each individual who 
is eligible to cast a vote in the election 
at the polling place the opportunity to 
cast the vote using a blank pre-print-
ed paper ballot which the individual 
may mark by hand and which is not 
produced by the direct recording elec-
tronic voting machine or other such 
system. The official shall provide the 
individual with the ballot and the sup-
plies necessary to mark the ballot, and 
shall ensure (to the greatest extent 
practicable) that the waiting period 
for the individual to cast a vote is the 
lesser of 30 minutes or the average 
waiting period for an individual who 
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does not agree to cast the vote using 
such a paper ballot under this clause. 
‘‘(II) TREATMENT OF BALLOT.— 
Any paper ballot which is cast by an 
individual under this clause shall be 
counted and otherwise treated as a 
regular ballot for all purposes (includ-
ing by incorporating it into the final 
unofficial vote count (as defined by 
the State) for the precinct) and not as 
a provisional ballot, unless the indi-
vidual casting the ballot would have 
otherwise been required to cast a pro-
visional ballot. 
‘‘(III) POSTING
OF
NOTICE.— 
The appropriate election official shall 
ensure there is prominently displayed 
at each polling place a notice that de-
scribes the obligation of the official to 
offer individuals the opportunity to 
cast votes using a pre-printed blank 
paper ballot. 
‘‘(IV) TRAINING
OF
ELECTION 
OFFICIALS.—The chief State election 
official shall ensure that election offi-
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cials at polling places in the State are 
aware of the requirements of this 
clause, including the requirement to 
display a notice under subclause (III), 
and are aware that it is a violation of 
the requirements of this title for an 
election official to fail to offer an indi-
vidual the opportunity to cast a vote 
using a blank pre-printed paper ballot. 
‘‘(V) 
PERIOD
OF
APPLICA-
BILITY.—The requirements of this 
clause apply only during the period in 
which the delay is in effect under 
clause (i). 
‘‘(C) SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
JURISDICTIONS 
USING
CERTAIN
NONTABULATING
BALLOT 
MARKING DEVICES.—In the case of a jurisdic-
tion which uses a nontabulating ballot marking 
device which automatically deposits the ballot 
into a privacy sleeve, subparagraph (A) shall 
apply to a voting system in the jurisdiction as 
if the reference in such subparagraph to ‘any 
election for Federal office held in 2020 or any 
succeeding year’ were a reference to ‘elections 
for Federal office occurring held in 2022 or 
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each succeeding year’, but only with respect to 
paragraph (3)(B)(iii)(II) of subsection (a) (re-
lating to nonmanual casting of the durable 
paper ballot).’’. 
PART 2—GRANTS TO CARRY OUT 
IMPROVEMENTS 
SEC. 111. GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT PAPER BAL-
LOT VOTING SYSTEMS AND CARRYING OUT 
VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) AVAILABILITY OF GRANTS.—Subtitle D of title 
II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 
21001 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new part: 
‘‘PART 7—GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT 
PAPER BALLOT VOTING SYSTEMS AND CAR-
RYING OUT VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IM-
PROVEMENTS 
‘‘SEC. 297. GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT PAPER 
BALLOT VOTING SYSTEMS AND CARRYING 
OUT VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVE-
MENTS. 
‘‘(a) AVAILABILITY AND USE OF GRANT.—The Com-
mission shall make a grant to each eligible State— 
‘‘(1) to replace a voting system— 
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‘‘(A) which does not meet the requirements 
which are first imposed on the State pursuant 
to the amendments made by the Voter Con-
fidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019 
with a voting system which does meet such re-
quirements, for use in the regularly scheduled 
general elections for Federal office held in No-
vember 2020, or 
‘‘(B) which does meet such requirements 
but which is not in compliance with the most 
recent voluntary voting system guidelines issued 
by the Commission prior to the regularly sched-
uled general election for Federal office held in 
November 2020 with another system which does 
meet such requirements and is in compliance 
with such guidelines; 
‘‘(2) to carry out voting system security im-
provements described in section 297A with respect 
to the regularly scheduled general elections for Fed-
eral office held in November 2020 and each suc-
ceeding election for Federal office; and 
‘‘(3) to implement and model best practices for 
ballot design, ballot instructions, and the testing of 
ballots. 
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‘‘(b) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The amount of a grant 
made to a State under this section shall be such amount 
as the Commission determines to be appropriate, except 
that such amount may not be less than the product of 
$1 and the average of the number of individuals who cast 
votes in any of the two most recent regularly scheduled 
general elections for Federal office held in the State. 
‘‘(c) PRO RATA REDUCTIONS.—If the amount of 
funds appropriated for grants under this part is insuffi-
cient to ensure that each State receives the amount of the 
grant calculated under subsection (b), the Commission 
shall make such pro rata reductions in such amounts as 
may be necessary to ensure that the entire amount appro-
priated under this part is distributed to the States. 
‘‘(d) SURPLUS APPROPRIATIONS.—If the amount of 
funds appropriated for grants authorized under section 
297D(a)(2) exceed the amount necessary to meet the re-
quirements of subsection (b), the Commission shall con-
sider the following in making a determination to award 
remaining funds to a State: 
‘‘(1) The record of the State in carrying out the 
following with respect to the administration of elec-
tions for Federal office: 
‘‘(A) Providing voting machines that are 
less than 10 years old. 
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‘‘(B) Implementing strong chain of custody 
procedures for the physical security of voting 
equipment and paper records at all stages of 
the process. 
‘‘(C) Conducting pre-election testing on 
every voting machine and ensuring that paper 
ballots are available wherever electronic ma-
chines are used. 
‘‘(D) Maintaining offline backups of voter 
registration lists. 
‘‘(E) Providing a secure voter registration 
database that logs requests submitted to the 
database. 
‘‘(F) Publishing and enforcing a policy de-
tailing use limitations and security safeguards 
to protect the personal information of voters in 
the voter registration process. 
‘‘(G) Providing secure processes and proce-
dures for reporting vote tallies. 
‘‘(H) Providing a secure platform for dis-
seminating vote totals. 
‘‘(2) Evidence of established conditions of inno-
vation and reform in providing voting system secu-
rity and the proposed plan of the State for imple-
menting additional conditions. 
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‘‘(3) Evidence of collaboration between relevant 
stakeholders, including local election officials, in de-
veloping the grant implementation plan described in 
section 297B. 
‘‘(4) The plan of the State to conduct a rig-
orous evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities 
carried out with the grant. 
‘‘(e) ABILITY OF REPLACEMENT SYSTEMS TO AD-
MINISTER RANKED CHOICE ELECTIONS.—To the greatest 
extent practicable, an eligible State which receives a grant 
to replace a voting system under this section shall ensure 
that the replacement system is capable of administering 
a system of ranked choice voting under which each voter 
shall rank the candidates for the office in the order of 
the voter’s preference. 
‘‘SEC. 297A. VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS 
DESCRIBED. 
‘‘(a) PERMITTED USES.—A voting system security 
improvement described in this section is any of the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) The acquisition of goods and services from 
qualified election infrastructure vendors by purchase, 
lease, or such other arrangements as may be appro-
priate. 
‘‘(2) Cyber and risk mitigation training. 
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‘‘(3) A security risk and vulnerability assess-
ment of the State’s election infrastructure which is 
carried out by a provider of cybersecurity services 
under a contract entered into between the chief 
State election official and the provider. 
‘‘(4) The maintenance of election infrastruc-
ture, including addressing risks and vulnerabilities 
which are identified under either of the security risk 
and vulnerability assessments described in para-
graph (3), except that none of the funds provided 
under this part may be used to renovate or replace 
a building or facility which is used primarily for pur-
poses other than the administration of elections for 
public office. 
‘‘(5) Providing increased technical support for 
any information technology infrastructure that the 
chief State election official deems to be part of the 
State’s election infrastructure or designates as crit-
ical to the operation of the State’s election infra-
structure. 
‘‘(6) Enhancing the cybersecurity and oper-
ations of the information technology infrastructure 
described in paragraph (4). 
‘‘(7) Enhancing the cybersecurity of voter reg-
istration systems. 
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‘‘(b) QUALIFIED ELECTION INFRASTRUCTURE VEN-
DORS DESCRIBED.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this part, 
a ‘qualified election infrastructure vendor’ is any 
person who provides, supports, or maintains, or who 
seeks to provide, support, or maintain, election in-
frastructure on behalf of a State, unit of local gov-
ernment, or election agency (as defined in section 
801 of the Election Security Act) who meets the cri-
teria described in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA.—The criteria described in this 
paragraph are such criteria as the Chairman, in co-
ordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
shall establish and publish, and shall include each of 
the following requirements: 
‘‘(A) The vendor must be owned and con-
trolled by a citizen or permanent resident of the 
United States. 
‘‘(B) The vendor must disclose to the 
Chairman and the Secretary, and to the chief 
State election official of any State to which the 
vendor provides any goods and services with 
funds provided under this part, of any sourcing 
outside the United States for parts of the elec-
tion infrastructure. 
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‘‘(C) The vendor agrees to ensure that the 
election infrastructure will be developed and 
maintained in a manner that is consistent with 
the cybersecurity best practices issued by the 
Technical Guidelines Development Committee. 
‘‘(D) The vendor agrees to maintain its in-
formation technology infrastructure in a man-
ner that is consistent with the cybersecurity 
best practices issued by the Technical Guide-
lines Development Committee. 
‘‘(E) The vendor agrees to meet the re-
quirements of paragraph (3) with respect to 
any known or suspected cybersecurity incidents 
involving any of the goods and services provided 
by the vendor pursuant to a grant under this 
part. 
‘‘(F) The vendor agrees to permit inde-
pendent security testing by the Commission (in 
accordance with section 231(a)) and by the Sec-
retary of the goods and services provided by the 
vendor pursuant to a grant under this part. 
‘‘(3) CYBERSECURITY
INCIDENT
REPORTING 
REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A vendor meets the 
requirements of this paragraph if, upon becom-
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ing aware of the possibility that an election cy-
bersecurity incident has occurred involving any 
of the goods and services provided by the ven-
dor pursuant to a grant under this part— 
‘‘(i) the vendor promptly assesses 
whether or not such an incident occurred, 
and submits a notification meeting the re-
quirements of subparagraph (B) to the 
Secretary and the Chairman of the assess-
ment as soon as practicable (but in no case 
later than 3 days after the vendor first be-
comes aware of the possibility that the in-
cident occurred); 
‘‘(ii) if the incident involves goods or 
services provided to an election agency, the 
vendor submits a notification meeting the 
requirements of subparagraph (B) to the 
agency as soon as practicable (but in no 
case later than 3 days after the vendor 
first becomes aware of the possibility that 
the incident occurred), and cooperates with 
the agency in providing any other nec-
essary notifications relating to the inci-
dent; and 
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‘‘(iii) the vendor provides all necessary 
updates to any notification submitted 
under clause (i) or clause (ii). 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS
OF
NOTIFICATIONS.— 
Each notification submitted under clause (i) or 
clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall contain 
the following information with respect to any 
election cybersecurity incident covered by the 
notification: 
‘‘(i) The date, time, and time zone 
when the election cybersecurity incident 
began, if known. 
‘‘(ii) The date, time, and time zone 
when the election cybersecurity incident 
was detected. 
‘‘(iii) The date, time, and duration of 
the election cybersecurity incident. 
‘‘(iv) The circumstances of the elec-
tion cybersecurity incident, including the 
specific election infrastructure systems be-
lieved to have been accessed and informa-
tion acquired, if any. 
‘‘(v) Any planned and implemented 
technical measures to respond to and re-
cover from the incident. 
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‘‘(vi) In the case of any notification 
which is an update to a prior notification, 
any additional material information relat-
ing to the incident, including technical 
data, as it becomes available. 
‘‘SEC. 297B. ELIGIBILITY OF STATES. 
‘‘A State is eligible to receive a grant under this part 
if the State submits to the Commission, at such time and 
in such form as the Commission may require, an applica-
tion containing— 
‘‘(1) a description of how the State will use the 
grant to carry out the activities authorized under 
this part; 
‘‘(2) a certification and assurance that, not 
later than 5 years after receiving the grant, the 
State will carry out risk-limiting audits and will 
carry out voting system security improvements, as 
described in section 297A; and 
‘‘(3) such other information and assurances as 
the Commission may require. 
‘‘SEC. 297C. REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 
‘‘Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal 
year, the Commission shall submit a report to the appro-
priate congressional committees, including the Committees 
on Homeland Security, House Administration, and the Ju-
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diciary of the House of Representatives and the Commit-
tees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the 
Judiciary, and Rules and Administration of the Senate, 
on the activities carried out with the funds provided under 
this part. 
‘‘SEC. 297D. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated for grants under this part— 
‘‘(1) $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2019; and 
‘‘(2) $175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026. 
‘‘(b) CONTINUING AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Any 
amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of 
this section shall remain available until expended.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended by adding at the end of the items 
relating to subtitle D of title II the following: 
‘‘PART 7—GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT PAPER BALLOT VOTING 
SYSTEMS AND CARRYING OUT VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS 
‘‘Sec. 297. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and 
carrying out voting system security improvements. 
‘‘Sec. 297A. Voting system security improvements described. 
‘‘Sec. 297B. Eligibility of States. 
‘‘Sec. 297C. Reports to Congress. 
‘‘Sec. 297D. Authorization of appropriations. 
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SEC. 112. COORDINATION OF VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY 
ACTIVITIES WITH USE OF REQUIREMENTS 
PAYMENTS AND ELECTION ADMINISTRATION 
REQUIREMENTS 
UNDER 
HELP 
AMERICA 
VOTE ACT OF 2002. 
(a) DUTIES
OF ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMIS-
SION.—Section 202 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 
(52 U.S.C. 20922) is amended in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘by’’ and inserting ‘‘and the se-
curity of election infrastructure by’’. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP OF SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SE-
CURITY ON BOARD OF ADVISORS OF ELECTION ASSIST-
ANCE COMMISSION.—Section 214(a) of such Act (52 
U.S.C. 20944(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘37 members’’ and inserting 
‘‘38 members’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(17) The Secretary of Homeland Security or 
the Secretary’s designee.’’. 
(c) REPRESENTATIVE OF DEPARTMENT OF HOME-
LAND SECURITY ON TECHNICAL GUIDELINES DEVELOP-
MENT COMMITTEE.—Section 221(c)(1) of such Act (52 
U.S.C. 20961(c)(1)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as sub-
paragraph (F); and 
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(2) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) A representative of the Department 
of Homeland Security.’’. 
(d) GOALS OF PERIODIC STUDIES OF ELECTION AD-
MINISTRATION ISSUES; CONSULTATION WITH SECRETARY 
OF HOMELAND SECURITY.—Section 241(a) of such Act 
(52 U.S.C. 20981(a)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
striking ‘‘the Commission shall’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
Commission, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Homeland Security (as appropriate), shall’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(3); 
(3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (5); and 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) will be secure against attempts to under-
mine the integrity of election systems by cyber or 
other means; and’’. 
(e) REQUIREMENTS PAYMENTS.— 
(1) USE OF PAYMENTS FOR VOTING SYSTEM 
SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS.—Section 251(b) of such 
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Act (52 U.S.C. 21001(b)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) PERMITTING USE OF PAYMENTS FOR VOT-
ING
SYSTEM
SECURITY
IMPROVEMENTS.—A State 
may use a requirements payment to carry out any 
of the following activities: 
‘‘(A) Cyber and risk mitigation training. 
‘‘(B) Providing increased technical support 
for any information technology infrastructure 
that the chief State election official deems to be 
part of the State’s election infrastructure or 
designates as critical to the operation of the 
State’s election infrastructure. 
‘‘(C) Enhancing the cybersecurity and op-
erations of the information technology infra-
structure described in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(D) Enhancing the security of voter reg-
istration databases.’’. 
(2) INCORPORATION
OF
ELECTION
INFRA-
STRUCTURE PROTECTION IN STATE PLANS FOR USE 
OF PAYMENTS.—Section 254(a)(1) of such Act (52 
U.S.C. 21004(a)(1)) is amended by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘, including the protec-
tion of election infrastructure.’’. 
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chief State election official of the State has estab-
lished or will establish the rules and procedures for 
conducting the audits which meet the requirements 
of section 298(c); 
‘‘(3) a certification that the audit shall be com-
pleted not later than the date on which the State 
certifies the results of the election; 
‘‘(4) a certification that, after completing the 
audit, the State shall publish a report on the results 
of the audit, together with such information as nec-
essary to confirm that the audit was conducted prop-
erly; 
‘‘(5) a certification that, if a risk-limiting audit 
conducted under this part leads to a full manual 
tally of an election, State law requires that the State 
or election agency shall use the results of the full 
manual tally as the official results of the election; 
and 
‘‘(6) such other information and assurances as 
the Commission may require. 
‘‘SEC. 298B. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated for grants 
under this part $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2019, to re-
main available until expended.’’. 
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