Sec. 4. Promoting voter roll integrity
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Subtitle D of Title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 20901 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new part: A State shall be ineligible to receive funds under this Act unless the State meets the following requirements with respect to each election for Federal office held on or after January 1, 2021: The State has in effect a law that— requires an individual to present a current and valid form of photographic identification at a polling location prior to being able to cast a ballot in an election for Federal office; specifies approved forms of identification for meeting such requirement; requires a supervisor of elections or other authorized elections official to confirm the individual is validly registered and eligible to vote at that polling location; and requires the individual be provided a provisional ballot if— the individual is unable to present a current and valid approved form of identification; or the supervisor of elections or other authorized elections official is unable to confirm that the individual is validly registered and eligible to vote at the polling location.
The State has in effect a law that— requires the supervisor of elections or other authorized election official to compare and confirm that an individual’s signature on a mail-in ballot matches the authorized signature appearing in the individual’s voter registration file; and specifies procedures for a supervisor of elections or other authorized elections official— to notify the individual if the signature on the individual’s mail-in ballot is determined not to match the authorized signature appearing in the individual’s voter registration file; to permit the individual to provide a copy of an approved form of photographic identification and a sworn statement attesting that— the individual is validly registered and eligible to vote in the jurisdiction; the signature on the mail-in ballot belongs to that individual; and the individual has not cast another ballot in the election for Federal office; and to mark the mail-in ballot as illegal and ineligible to be counted if the individual fails to respond within the designated period of time to cure the reported defect in the individual’s authorized signature.
The State has in effect a law that prohibits an individual from registering to vote for the first time and casting a ballot on the same day at a polling location. The State has in effect a law that requires the chief election official of each jurisdiction or precinct to— complete an audit of the voter roll of the registered voters within that jurisdiction or precinct in each year in which an election for Federal office is held; compare the names of the registered voters within the jurisdiction or precinct with— the Death Master File (as such term is defined in section 203(d) of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 ( 42 U.S.C. 1306c(d) )); and the E-Verify Program described in section 403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996; promptly notify an individual identified as ineligible pursuant to subparagraph
(B)to provide an opportunity to prove their eligibility to be registered to vote according to procedures defined in State law for that purpose; remove from the voter roll an individual who fails to prove their eligibility to vote in an election for Federal office pursuant to subparagraph (C); and file a written certification with the chief State election official certifying the completion of the audit and the accuracy of the voter roll of registered voters within the relevant jurisdiction or precinct, which is required under such law to be submitted not later than 6 months prior to the date of an election for Federal office. . The table of contents of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 296 the following: Part 7—Promoting voter roll integrity Sec. 297. Payment ineligibility for States without adequate voter roll integrity measures. .
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