I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3163 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require any State offering 
an early voting period in elections for Federal office to make the period 
available for the entire 14-day period that precedes the date of the 
election, to prohibit States from imposing identification requirements 
on individuals who wish to vote or register to vote who are not otherwise 
required to provide identification under such Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 12, 2011 
Ms. BROWN of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration 
A BILL 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require 
any State offering an early voting period in elections 
for Federal office to make the period available for the 
entire 14-day period that precedes the date of the elec-
tion, to prohibit States from imposing identification re-
quirements on individuals who wish to vote or register 
to vote who are not otherwise required to provide identi-
fication under such Act, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Easy Voting Act of 
2011’’. 
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHING MINIMUM EARLY VOTING PERIOD 
FOR JURISDICTIONS CONDUCTING EARLY 
VOTING. 
(a) MINIMUM PERIOD.—Subtitle A of title III of the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15481 et seq.) 
is amended by inserting after section 303 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 303A. REQUIREMENTS FOR STATES PERMITTING 
EARLY VOTING. 
‘‘(a) MINIMUM EARLY VOTING PERIOD.—If a State 
permits individuals to cast ballots in an election for Fed-
eral office during a period that occurs prior to the date 
of the election in the same manner in which ballots are 
cast on the date of the election, the State shall ensure 
that such period includes the entire 14-day period (includ-
ing Saturdays and Sundays) which ends on the date of 
the election. 
‘‘(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Each State shall be re-
quired to comply with the requirements of this section be-
ginning January 1, 2012.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO EN-
FORCEMENT.—Section 401 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 15511) 
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is amended by striking ‘‘sections 301, 302, and 303’’ and 
inserting ‘‘subtitle A of title III’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating 
to section 303 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 303A. Requirements for States permitting early voting’’. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITING STATES FROM REQUIRING STATE- 
ISSUED IDENTIFICATION AS CONDITION FOR 
VOTING OR REGISTERING TO VOTE. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Subtitle A of title III of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15481 et seq.), as 
amended by section 2(a), is amended by inserting after 
section 303A the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 
303B. 
PROHIBITING 
STATES 
FROM 
REQUIRING 
STATE-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION AS CONDI-
TION FOR VOTING OR REGISTERING TO 
VOTE. 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—An election official may not re-
quire an individual to provide a State-issued identification 
(including an identification issued by a unit of local gov-
ernment in the State) as a condition of receiving or casting 
a ballot in any election for Federal office or of registering 
to vote in any election for Federal office. 
‘‘(b) NO EFFECT ON REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN 
VOTERS WHO REGISTER BY MAIL.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to affect any requirement under 
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section 303(b) that certain individuals who register to vote 
by mail present a form of identification as a condition of 
casting a ballot in an election. 
‘‘(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Each State shall be re-
quired to comply with the requirements of this section be-
ginning January 1, 2012.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act, as amended by section 2(c), is amended by 
inserting after the item relating to section 303A the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘Sec. 303B. Prohibiting States from requiring State-issued identification as 
condition for voting or registering to vote’’. 
SEC. 4. REQUIRING STATES TO MAKE SAME-DAY VOTER 
REGISTRATION AND CHANGE OF ADDRESS 
SERVICE AVAILABLE. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title III of the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15481 
et seq.), as amended by section 3(a), is amended by 
inserting after section 303B the following new sec-
tion: 
‘‘SEC. 303C. ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION AND CHANGE 
OF ADDRESS SERVICE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) REGISTRATION.—Notwithstanding section 
8(a)(1)(D) of the National Voter Registration Act of 
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1993 (42 U.S.C. 1973gg–6), each State shall permit 
any individual on the day of an election for Federal 
office— 
‘‘(A) to register to vote in such election at 
the polling place using a form that meets the 
requirements of section 9(b) of the National 
Voter Registration Act of 1993; and 
‘‘(B) if, on the basis of registering to vote 
under subparagraph (A), the individual is quali-
fied to vote in such election, to cast a vote in 
such election. 
‘‘(2) CHANGE OF ADDRESS SERVICE FOR REG-
ISTERED VOTERS.—If an individual who is a reg-
istered voter in a State moves to a new address in 
the State but does not provide the appropriate State 
election official with information on the new address 
prior to appearing at a polling place to cast a vote 
in an election for Federal office, the State shall per-
mit the individual— 
‘‘(A) to provide such information at the 
polling place using a change of address form 
developed by the State; and 
‘‘(B) notwithstanding section 302(a), to 
cast a regular ballot instead of a provisional 
ballot for the election. 
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‘‘(3) EXCEPTION.—The requirements under 
paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to a State in 
which, under a State law in effect continuously on 
and after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
there is no voter registration requirement for indi-
viduals in the State with respect to elections for 
Federal office. 
‘‘(b) TRANSMITTAL OF FORMS TO STATE ELECTION 
OFFICIALS.—The appropriate election official at the poll-
ing place shall transmit a voter registration form provided 
by an individual at the polling place under subsection 
(a)(1) or a change of address form provided by an indi-
vidual at the polling place under subsection (a)(2) to the 
appropriate State election official at the time the official 
transmits the ballots cast in the election. 
‘‘(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Each State shall be re-
quired to comply with the requirements of this section be-
ginning January 1, 2012.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of such Act, as amended by section 3(b), is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to sec-
tion 303B the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 303C. Election Day registration and change of address service’’. 
(b) APPLICATION TO EARLY VOTING SITES.—Section 
303A of such Act, as added by section 2(a), is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(b) APPLICATION OF ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION 
AND CHANGE OF ADDRESS SERVICE TO EARLY VOT-
ING.—At each polling place in a State which allows voting 
prior to the day of a Federal election (as described in sub-
section (a)), the State shall permit individuals to register 
to vote in the same manner as the State is required to 
permit individuals to register to vote and vote on the day 
of the election under section 303C(a)(1), and shall provide 
change of address service in the same manner as the State 
is required to provide such service under section 
303C(a)(2).’’. 
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