Vote Integrity and Verification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-559
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Ballots
Blind
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Computer software
Computers
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional elections
Corporation directors
Department of Justice
Directories
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Election Assistance Commission
Election administration
Election fraud
Evidence (Law)
Federal Election Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Freedom of information
Fund raising
Government employees' political activities
Government ethics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Illiteracy
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Laboratories
Language and languages
Law
Licenses
Political action committees
Presidential elections
Public corruption
Right of privacy
Runoff elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Soldier voting
Special elections
Standards
State officials
Voter registration
Voting
Voting machines
Voting of the disabled
Voting rights
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Vote Integrity and Verification Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) with respect to: (1) ballot verification and mandatory paper record audit capacity; and (2) accessibility and ballot verification of results for individuals with disabilities.

Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study, test, and develop best practices to enhance the accessibility of ballot verification mechanisms for individuals with disabilities, voters whose primary language is not English, and voters with difficulties in literacy.

Requires laboratories to meet standards prohibiting conflicts of interest as a condition of accreditation for the testing of voting system hardware and software.

Outlines additional voting system requirements and prohibitions.

Extends the authorization of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).

Provides for complaints to the Attorney General by persons aggrieved by violations of HAVA.

Makes available additional funding to enable states to meet the costs of the requirements imposed by this Act.
 
Directs the chief auditor of each state to appoint an Election Audit Board to administer, without advance notice to the precincts selected, random hand counts of the voter-verified paper ballots required to be produced and preserved for each such election held in the state.
 
Makes it unlawful for a chief state election administration official to take an active part in political management or in a political campaign with respect to any federal election over which such official has supervisory authority.
 
Repeals the exemption of the EAC from certain government contracting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1903-1904)
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate