Sec. 12. Studies and data collection
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Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report on voter registration trends, absentee voting trends, and provisional voting trends, disaggregated by age and (where information on race is available) race in accordance with paragraph (2), including— an examination of the reliance on absentee and provisional ballots by age; an examination of the availability of polling places on the campuses of institutions of higher education as defined in section 7 of this Act, including consideration of the characteristics of those institutions and the populations they serve; the rejection rates for voter registration applications and absentee ballot applications; the rejection rates for absentee ballots and provisional ballots; and the reasons for those rejections.
The information described in paragraph
(1)shall be disaggregated according to (where information on race is available) race and according to the following age cohorts: 16 to 17. 18 to 21. 22 to 24. 25 to 29. 30 to 34. 35 to 39. 40 to 44. 45 to 49. 50 to 54. 55 to 59. 60 to 64. 65 to 69. 70 to 74. 75 to 79. 80 to 84. 85 and over. The Election Assistance Commission shall collect, as a part of the Election Administration and Voting Survey effort, and make publicly available, data from States on— application and rejection rates of voter registration applications and absentee ballot applications for elections for Federal office based on age and (where information on race is available) race; application and rejection rates of absentee ballots and the issuance and rejection rates of provisional ballots cast for elections for Federal office based on age and (where information on race is available) race; the reasons provided by the State for the rejection of such ballots; and information on the availability of polling places on the campuses of institutions of higher education as defined in section 7 of this Act, including consideration of the characteristics of those institutions and the populations they serve. The information described in paragraph
(1)shall be disaggregated according to each age cohort described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(P)of subsection (a)(2). Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 303 the following new section: Each State shall furnish to the Election Assistance Commission such information as the Commission may request for purposes of carrying out section 10(b) of the Youth Voting Rights Act. This section shall apply with respect to the elections for Federal office held on or after the date of enactment of this section. . Section 401 of such Act ( 52 U.S.C. 21111 ), as amended by section 9(b), is amended by inserting 303A, after 303, . The table of contents of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 303 the following new item: Sec. 303A. Required submission of information regarding rejected applications and ballots. .
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