Make Every Vote Count Act
Latest action · Mar 7, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 7, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to provide that, for purposes of voting for a Federal or State office, a person absent from a State in compliance with military or naval orders shall not, solely by reason of that absence, be deemed to have: (1) lost a residence or domicile in that State; (2) acquired a residence or domicile in any other State; or (3) become resident in or a resident of any other State.
Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to require each State to: (1) permit absent uniformed services voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and run-off elections for State and local offices; and (2) accept and process, with respect to any such election, any otherwise valid voter registration application from an absent uniformed services voter if the application is received by the appropriate State election official not less than 30 days before the election.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Rules and Administration Committee | Referred Mar 7, 2001 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Mar 7, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 107-1041 | S. 368 AND ELECTION REFORM110 pages | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | May 8, 2001 |
| S. Hrg. 107-69 | FEDERAL ELECTION PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES408 pages | Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee | May 3, 2001–May 9, 2001 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to establish a grant program administered by the Federal Election Commission for the purpose of assisting States to upgrade voting systems to use more advanced and accurate voting devices and to enhance participation by military personnel in national elections.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Make Every Vote Count Act
- Popular Titles
- Military Voting Rights bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Absentee voting
- Armed forces abroad
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Ballots
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Congress
- Congressional elections
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Election administration
- Employee training
- Government Operations and Politics
- Grants-in-aid
- Labor and Employment
- Presidential elections
- Residence requirements
- Soldier voting
- Voter registration
- Voter turnout
- Voting
- Voting machines
- Voting of the disabled
- Voting rights
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2001Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
