I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1381 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to improve the administration 
of elections for Federal office, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 7, 2007 
Mrs. JONES of Ohio (for herself, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. HASTINGS of 
Florida, Mr. CLAY, and Mr. COHEN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition 
to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Science and 
Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to improve 
the administration of elections for Federal office, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Count Every Vote Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
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Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—VOTER VERIFICATION AND AUDITING 
Sec. 101. Promoting accuracy, integrity, and security through preservation of 
a voter-verified paper record. 
Sec. 102. Requirement for mandatory manual audits. 
Sec. 103. Specific, delineated requirement of study, testing, and development of 
best practices. 
Sec. 104. Voter-verification and audit capacity funding. 
Sec. 105. Reports and provision of security consultation services. 
Sec. 106. Improvements to voting systems. 
Sec. 107. Requirements for testing laboratories. 
TITLE II—PROVISIONAL BALLOTS 
Sec. 201. Requirements for casting and counting provisional ballots. 
TITLE III—ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE HELP 
AMERICA VOTE ACT OF 2002 
Subtitle A—Shortening Voter Wait Times 
Sec. 301. Equitable allocation of voting systems, poll workers, and election re-
sources. 
Sec. 302. State plans to prevent unreasonable wait times; remedial plans; emer-
gency ballots. 
Subtitle B—No-Excuse Absentee Voting 
Sec. 311. No-excuse absentee voting. 
Subtitle C—Collection and Dissemination of Election Data 
Sec. 321. Data collection. 
Subtitle D—Ensuring Well-Run Elections 
Sec. 331. Training of poll workers. 
Sec. 332. Impartial administration of elections. 
Sec. 333. Study on encouraging government employees and secondary school 
students to serve as poll workers. 
Subtitle E—Standards for Purging Voters 
Sec. 341. Standards for purging voters. 
Subtitle F—Election Day Registration and Early Voting 
Sec. 351. Election day registration. 
Sec. 352. Early voting. 
Subtitle G—Newly Eligible Voters 
Sec. 361. Encouraging the registration of newly eligible voters. 
Sec. 362. Civic education pilot program. 
TITLE IV—VOTER REGISTRATION AND IDENTIFICATION 
Sec. 401. Voter registration. 
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Sec. 402. Establishing voter identification for certain voters who register by 
mail. 
Sec. 403. Requirement for Federal certification of technological security of 
voter registration lists. 
Sec. 404. Coordination with state databases. 
TITLE V—PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 501. Prohibition on certain campaign activities. 
TITLE VI—ENDING DECEPTIVE PRACTICES 
Sec. 601. Ending deceptive practices. 
TITLE VII—CIVIC PARTICIPATION BY EX-OFFENDERS 
Sec. 701. Voting rights of individuals convicted of criminal offenses. 
TITLE VIII—ELECTION DAY AS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY 
Sec. 801. Acceleration of study on Election Day as a public holiday. 
TITLE IX—ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO ELECTION 
PROCEDURES 
Sec. 901. Transmission of certificate of ascertainment of electors. 
Sec. 902. Study on feasibility of creating ranking system of State election ad-
ministration processes. 
TITLE X—STRENGTHENING THE ELECTION ASSISTANCE 
COMMISSION 
Sec. 1001. Strengthening the Election Assistance Commission. 
Sec. 1002. Repeal of exemption of Election Assistance Commission from certain 
government contracting requirements. 
Sec. 1003. Membership of Technical Guidelines Development Committee. 
Sec. 1004. Authorization of appropriations for requirements payments. 
TITLE XI—EFFECTIVE DATE 
Sec. 1101. Effective date. 
TITLE I—VOTER VERIFICATION 
AND AUDITING 
SEC. 101. PROMOTING ACCURACY, INTEGRITY, AND SECU-
RITY THROUGH PRESERVATION OF A VOTER- 
VERIFIED PAPER RECORD. 
(a) VOTER VERIFICATION AND MANUAL AUDIT CA-
PACITY.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 301(a)(2) of the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 
15481(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) VOTER VERIFICATION AND MANUAL AUDIT 
CAPACITY.— 
‘‘(A) VOTER VERIFICATION.— 
‘‘(i) The voting system shall produce, 
or require the use of, an individual voter- 
verified paper record of the voter’s vote 
that shall be made available for inspection 
and verification by the voter, or marked by 
the voter, before the vote is cast. 
‘‘(ii) The voting system shall provide 
the voter with an opportunity to correct 
any error made by the system in the voter- 
verified paper record before the permanent 
voter-verified paper record is preserved in 
accordance with subparagraph (B)(i). 
‘‘(iii) The voter verified paper record 
shall use durable paper of archival quality 
capable of withstanding multiple counts 
and recounts without compromising the 
fundamental integrity of the records, and 
capable 
of 
retaining 
the 
information 
marked, printed, or recorded on them for 
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the full duration of the retention and pres-
ervation period called for by title III of the 
Civil Rights Act of 1960 (42 U.S.C. 1974 
et seq.) or under applicable State law, 
whichever is longer. The paper records 
shall not be produced through a reel-to- 
reel design. 
‘‘(iv) The voter verified paper record 
shall not be preserved in any manner that 
makes it possible, at any time after the 
ballot has been cast, to associate a voter 
with the record of the votes selected by the 
voter. 
‘‘(B) MANUAL AUDIT CAPACITY.—The per-
manent voter-verified paper record produced in 
accordance with subparagraph (A) shall— 
‘‘(i) be preserved within the polling 
place, in the manner, if any, in which all 
other paper ballots are preserved within 
that polling place, or, in the manner em-
ployed by the jurisdiction for preserving 
paper ballots in general, for later use in 
any manual audit; 
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