Title: Stop Mail-In Voter Fraud Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Stop Mail-In Voter Fraud Act
This bill provides for enhanced penalties for certain crimes related to federal elections and contains other related provisions.
More specifically, the bill increases the maximum terms of imprisonment for various criminal acts if the act involves multiple ballots related to a federal election. For example, current law allows for a prison term of up to 20 years for certain fraudulent schemes involving the mail. Under this bill, the maximum prison term shall be 30 years if such a mail fraud scheme involves multiple ballots for a federal election.
The bill also requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish a system, including a toll-free hotline and confidential website, for an individual to report instances of fraudulent transmission of ballots by mail in a federal election.
In addition, the bill requires courts to notify state election offices and DOJ when an individual has been recused from serving on a jury on the grounds that the individual is not a U.S. citizen. Each state's election office shall, as part of regular maintenance of its list of eligible voters, remove the name of such an individual from the voter list.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7803 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7803

     To amend title 18, United States Code, and the National Voter 
  Registration Act of 1993 to provide for enhanced penalties for the 
  fraudulent transmission of ballots by mail in elections for Federal 
   office, to direct the Attorney General to establish a system for 
 receiving reports of incidents of the fraudulent transmission of such 
                ballots by mail, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2020

  Mr. Meuser introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House 
   Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title 18, United States Code, and the National Voter 
  Registration Act of 1993 to provide for enhanced penalties for the 
  fraudulent transmission of ballots by mail in elections for Federal 
   office, to direct the Attorney General to establish a system for 
 receiving reports of incidents of the fraudulent transmission of such 
                ballots by mail, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Mail-In Voter Fraud Act''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR FRAUDULENT TRANSMISSION OF BALLOTS BY 
              MAIL IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    (a) Penalties for Mail Fraud.--Section 1341 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``20 years'' and inserting ``20 
years (or, in the case of a matter or thing consisting of a ballot in 
an election for Federal office which is placed or deposited for 
purposes of executing a scheme or artifice involving multiple ballots, 
30 years)''.
    (b) Penalties for Use of Fictitious Name or Address on Ballot.--
Section 1343 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking 
``five years'' and inserting ``five years (or, in the case of mail 
matter consisting of a ballot in an election for Federal office which 
is transmitted for purposes of executing a scheme or artifice involving 
multiple ballots, 10 years)''.
    (c) Penalties for Transmission of Fraudulent Ballots.--Section 12 
of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20511) is 
amended by striking ``five years'' and inserting ``five years (or, in 
the case of activity described in paragraph (2)(B) which involves the 
transmission of multiple ballots by mail, 10 years)''.

SEC. 3. REPORTING SYSTEM FOR INCIDENTS OF FRAUDULENT TRANSMISSION OF 
              BALLOTS BY MAIL IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    (a) Reporting System.--The Attorney General shall establish a 
system through which persons may report incidents involving the 
fraudulent transmission of ballots by mail in elections for Federal 
office, including through a toll-free hotline and a confidential online 
portal.
    (b) Deadline.--The Attorney General shall establish the system 
under subsection (a) not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.

SEC. 4. ENSURING PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO STATE ELECTION OFFICIALS 
              ON INDIVIDUALS RECUSED FROM JURY SERVICE ON GROUNDS OF 
              NONCITIZENSHIP.

    (a) Requiring State Election Officials To Coordinate Information on 
Recusal as Part of Maintenance of Statewide Voter Registration List.--
Subparagraph (A) of section 303(a)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 
2002 (52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); and
            (2) by inserting after clause (ii) the following new 
        clause:
                            ``(iii) For purposes of removing names of 
                        ineligible voters from the official list of 
                        eligible voters by reason of citizenship 
                        status, the State shall coordinate the 
                        computerized list with records of courts which 
                        have recused individuals from serving on a jury 
                        on the grounds that the individuals are not 
                        citizens of the United States.''.
    (b) Requiring Notification by Courts.--
            (1) Requirement described.--If a United States district 
        court or a court of any State or local jurisdiction recuses an 
        individual from serving on a jury on the grounds that the 
        individual is not a citizen of the United States, the court 
        shall transmit a notice of the individual's recusal--
                    (A) to the chief State election official of the 
                State in which the individual resides; and
                    (B) to the Attorney General.
            (2) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection--
                    (A) the ``chief State election official'' of a 
                State is the individual designated by the State under 
                section 10 of the National Voter Registration Act of 
                1993 (52 U.S.C. 20509) to be responsible for 
                coordination of the State's responsibilities under such 
                Act; and
                    (B) the term ``State'' means each of the several 
                States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
                Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the United States 
                Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
                Mariana Islands.
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