Sec. 6. Voting systems research by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation as appropriate, shall carry out a program of research on voting systems, including— the cybersecurity of different components of such systems; end-to-end verifiable systems; the timely counting, verification, and certification of results; the accessibility and usability of different components of such systems; voter privacy and data protection; methods for auditing elections; the interoperability of system technologies; means for providing voters with the ability to easily check whether a ballot sent by mail has been dispatched to the voter and whether the voter’s marked ballot has been received and accepted by the appropriate election official; the reliability of various approaches to voter authentication; accessibility and transparency for poll watchers; methods for authenticating and updating voter registration lists; and such other areas of research as the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology determines to be appropriate and related to the security and integrity of elections for Federal office.