Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act, the following definitions apply: The term appropriate Members of Congress means, with respect to a notification described in section 3(b)(2)— the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the chairs and ranking minority members of the Committees on House Administration, Homeland Security, the Judiciary, and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, and each Member of the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress) who represents a congressional district in which the unit of local government involved is located; and the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the chairs and ranking minority members of the Committees on Rules and Administration, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Judiciary, and Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, and the Senators who represent the State involved.
The term Department means the Department of Homeland Security. The term election agency means any component of a State or any component of a unit of local government of a State that is responsible for administering Federal elections. The term election cybersecurity incident means any incident, as defined in section 2209(a)(3) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 659(a)(3) ), involving an election system. The term election system means a voting system, an election management system, a voter registration website or database, an electronic pollbook, a system for tabulating or reporting election results, an election agency communications system, or any other information system (as defined in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code) that the Secretary identifies as central to the management, support, or administration of a Federal election.
The term Federal election means any election (as defined in section 301(1) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30101(1) )) for Federal office (as defined in section 301(3) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30101(3) )). The term Federal entity means any agency (as defined in section 551 of title 5, United States Code). The term local election official means the chief election official of a component of a unit of local government of a State that is responsible for administering Federal elections.
The term Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security. The term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. The term State election official means— the chief State election official of a State designated under section 10 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 ( 52 U.S.C. 20509 ); or in the case of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands, a chief State election official designated by the State for purposes of this Act.
The term voting system has the meaning given the term in section 301(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21081(b) ).
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