Vote Integrity and Verification Act of 2007
Latest action · Feb 13, 2007 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.
- IntroducedFeb 13, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
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 Feb 13, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Feb 13, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1903-1904)
- Feb 13, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1903 | Bill Nelson D-FL | Feb 13, 2007 |
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.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R47592 | Federal Standards and Guidelines for Voting Systems: Overview and Potential Considerations for Congress | Report | Jun 12, 2023 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 811 | Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007 | Related bill | May 16, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent paper ballot under title III of such Act, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Vote Integrity and Verification Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- 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 administration
- Election Assistance Commission
- Election fraud
- Evidence (Law)
- Federal Election Commission
- Fines (Penalties)
- Freedom of information
- Fund raising
- Government employees' political activities
- Government ethics
- Government Operations and Politics
- 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
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 13, 2007Introduced 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.
