Sec. 1402. GAO analysis of effects of audits
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Not later than 6 months after the first election for Federal office is held after grants are first awarded to States for conducting risk-limiting under part 7 of subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (as added by section 1401) for conducting risk-limiting audits of elections for Federal office, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct an analysis of the extent to which such audits have improved the administration of such elections and the security of election infrastructure in the States receiving such grants. The Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report on the analysis conducted under subsection
(a)to the appropriate congressional committees. In this section— the term appropriate congressional committees means the Committees on Homeland Security and House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Rules and Administration of the Senate; the term election agency means any component of a State, or any component of a unit of local government in a State, which is responsible for the administration of elections for Federal office in the State; and the term election infrastructure means storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulation locations used to support the administration of elections for public office, as well as related information and communications technology, including voter registration databases, voting machines, electronic mail and other communications systems (including electronic mail and other systems of vendors who have entered into contracts with election agencies to support the administration of elections, manage the election process, and report and display election results), and other systems used to manage the election process and to report and display election results on behalf of an election agency.