opportunity to complete the form in a timely manner to 
allow for the completion of the registration form prior to 
the next election for Federal office.’’. 
(b) PROHIBITING REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE ADDI-
TIONAL INFORMATION RELATING TO AGE AND CITIZEN-
SHIP.—Section 303(b)(4) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
15483(b)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) PROHIBITING REQUIREMENT TO PRO-
VIDE
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION.—A State 
must accept, in lieu of requiring an applicant to 
provide any documentation of citizenship or age 
as a condition of registering to vote, the appli-
cant’s checking of the applicable boxes required 
under clauses (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) 
and attesting under penalty of perjury to all ap-
plicable eligibility requirements (including age 
and citizenship), as required by section 9(b)(2) 
of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 
(42 U.S.C. 1973gg–7(b)(2)).’’. 
(c) COMPLETED NATIONAL FORM DEEMED COM-
PLETE FOR ALL STATES.—Section 303(b) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 15483(b)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-
graph (6); and 
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(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) COMPLETED
NATIONAL
FORM
DEEMED 
COMPLETE FOR ALL STATES.—If an applicant for 
voter registration in a State submits a voter reg-
istration application form which contains all of the 
information required to be provided under the mail 
voter registration form developed by the Commission 
under section 9(a)(2) of the National Voter Reg-
istration Act of 1993 (whether the form submitted 
by the applicant is the form developed by the Com-
mission or another form developed and used by the 
State under section 6(a) of the National Voter Reg-
istration Act of 1993), the State may not refuse to 
register the applicant as a voter on the ground that 
the applicant failed to complete the form.’’. 
SEC. 6. PROHIBITING DELAY OR DENIAL OF REGISTRATION 
ON GROUNDS OF FAILURE TO MATCH INFOR-
MATION. 
(a) INFORMATION REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED IN 
APPLICATION.—Section 303(a)(5)(A) of the Help America 
Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15483(a)(5)(A)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by amending clause (i) to read as follows: 
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‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Except as pro-
vided in clause (ii), notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, an application for 
voter registration for an election for Fed-
eral office shall require the applicant to in-
clude— 
‘‘(I) in the case of an applicant 
who has been issued and has available 
at the time of registration a current 
and valid driver’s license, the appli-
cant’s driver’s license number; or 
‘‘(II) in the case of any other ap-
plicant (other than an applicant to 
whom clause (ii) applies), the last 4 
digits of the applicant’s social security 
number.’’; and 
(2) by striking clause (iii). 
(b) NO EFFECT ON REGISTRATION DUE TO FAILURE 
TO MATCH.—Section 303(a)(5)(B) of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 15483(a)(5)(B)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new clause: 
‘‘(iii) NO EFFECT ON REGISTRATION 
DUE
TO
FAILURE
TO
MATCH.—A State 
may not refuse to accept an individual’s 
application for voter registration, delay the 
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processing of such an application, or refuse 
to register the individual solely on the 
grounds that the information provided by 
the individual for purposes of the database 
of the Statewide voter registration system 
under this paragraph does not match infor-
mation contained with respect to the indi-
vidual in the database of the State motor 
vehicle authority, the Commissioner of So-
cial Security, or any other governmental 
entity, except that the State may require 
(in a uniform and nondiscriminatory man-
ner) the individual to meet the require-
ments of subsection (b)(2) in the same 
manner as an individual described in sub-
section (b)(1).’’. 
SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Section 303(d)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 
2002 (42 U.S.C. 15483(d)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘Each 
State’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided in sub-
paragraph (C), each State’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘The pro-
visions’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided in sub-
paragraph (C), the provisions’’; and 
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(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(C) DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATE FOR CER-
TAIN PROVISIONS.—To the extent that any pro-
vision of subsection (a) or subsection (b) was 
amended by the Protection Against Wrongful 
Voter Purges Act, such provision shall apply 
with respect to the regularly scheduled general 
election for Federal office held in November 
2010 and each succeeding election for Federal 
office.’’. 
Æ 
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