Count Every Vote Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1381
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Advertising
Auditing
Authorization
Ballots
Blind
Citizen participation
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Competitive bidding
Computer matching
Computer software
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Democracy
Directories
Disabled
Disasters
Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Election Assistance Commission
Election Day
Election administration
Election fraud
Election statistics
Electoral college
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee training
Ex-offenders
Federal Election Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government employees' political activities
Government ethics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Holidays
Identification devices
Illiteracy
Immigration
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Internet
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Language and languages
Law
Leave of absence
Local employees
Misconduct in office
Naturalization
Planning
Postal service
Presidential elections
Public corruption
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Security measures
Self-help devices for the disabled
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Standards
State employees
State laws
State officials
Student activities
Students
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Volunteer workers
Voter registration
Voting machines
Voting rights
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Count Every Vote Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 with respect to : (1) voter verification and mandatory auditing by state officials; (2) provisional ballots and requirements for casting and counting them; (3) shortening of voter wait lines; (4) equitable allocation of voting systems, poll workers, and election resources; (5) absentee balloting; (6) training of poll workers; (7) standards for purging voters; (8) an election day registration grant program; (9) standards for early voting; (10) voter registration and identification; (11) prohibition of deceptive practices and certain campaign activities; (12) voting rights of individuals convicted of criminal offenses; (13) election day as a public holiday; and (14) the Election Assistance Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House