Count Every Vote Act of 2007
Latest action · Mar 7, 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.
- IntroducedMar 7, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Count Every Vote Act of 2005 - 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; and (13) the Election Assistance Commission.
Makes appropriations to carry out this Act.
Federal Election Day Act of 2007 - Amends federal civil service to provide for federal election day as a public holiday.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 7, 2007 to May 24, 2007, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Original | Mar 7, 2007 |
| D-IL | Barack Obama | Mar 8, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | May 24, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Mar 7, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1381 | Count Every Vote Act of 2007 | Related bill | Mar 23, 2007 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Absentee voting
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Advertising
- Auditing
- Authorization
- Ballots
- Blind
- Citizen participation
- Civics education
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- 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 administration
- Election Assistance Commission
- Election Day
- Election fraud
- Election statistics
- Electoral college
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emergency Management
- Employee training
- Ex-offenders
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal Election Commission
- Federal employees
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Government employees' political activities
- Government ethics
- Government Operations and Politics
- 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 security numbers
- Social Welfare
- 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
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2007Introduced in Senate
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