Sec. 122. Funding for conducting post-election risk-limiting audits
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Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21001 et seq.), as amended by sections 111(a), 112(a), and 113(a), is amended by adding at the end the following new part: The Commission shall pay to States the amount of eligible post-election audit costs. For purposes of this section, the term eligible post-election audit costs means, with respect to any State, costs paid or incurred by the State or local government within the State for— the conduct of any risk-limiting audit (as defined in section 303A) with respect to an election for Federal office occurring after the date of the enactment of this part; and any equipment, software, personnel, or services necessary for the conduct of any such risk-limiting audit.
The Commission shall establish rules and procedures for submission of eligible post-election audit costs for payments under this section. In any case in which the amounts appropriated under subsection
(d)are insufficient to pay all eligible post-election audit costs submitted by States with respect to any Federal election, the amount of such costs paid under subsection
(a)to any State shall be equal to the amount that bears the same ratio to the amount which would be paid to such State (determined without regard to this paragraph) as— the number of individuals who voted in such Federal election in such State; bears to the total number of individuals who voted in such Federal election in all States submitting a claim for eligible post-election audit costs. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as are necessary to carry out this part. Any amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph
(1)shall remain available without fiscal year limitation until expended. . The table of contents of such Act, as amended by sections 111(b), 112(b), and 113(b), is further amended by adding at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following: Part 10—Funding for Post-Election Risk-Limiting Audits Sec. 299A. Payments for post-election risk-limiting audits. .
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Funding for conducting post-election risk-limiting audits
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