Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevent Act

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DECEPTIVE PRACTICES AND VOTER INTIMIDATION PREVENTION -- (Senate - November 10, 2005)
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--- Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I proudly join as a cosponsor of Senator Obama's Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2005. This important legislation will protect voters from the deceptive practices that aimed to keep them from the polls on election day.

Free and fair elections are the foundation of our democracy--a democracy built on the unassailable principle that every single American should have an equal say in their government. No American should ever approach their polling place in fear. No American should ever worry that they will somehow be penalized for exercising their fundamental right to vote . No American should ever be tricked into thinking they do not have the right to vote .

The Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevent Act takes great strides towards ensuring that no American will ever be denied the right to vote . It both criminalizes deceptive practices and provides affected individuals with a private right of action. It prevents the negative effects of deceptive practices by ensuring voters get accurate election information. It also requires the Attorney General to report allegations of deceptive practices, the actions taken to correct them, and any prosecutions resulting from those allegations.

We have worked hard to bring fair and free elections to people around the word-including the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. We must do everything in our power to ensure that our own elections are at least as fair and as free.

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S.1975
Title: A bill to prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections.
Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack (introduced 11/8/2005) Cosponsors (4)
Related Bills: H.R.4463
Latest Major Action: 11/8/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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COSPONSORS(4), ALPHABETICAL : (Sort: by date)
Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham - 12/12/2005
Sen Feingold, Russell D. - 12/12/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. - 11/10/2005
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 12/12/2005

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1. New item on the to do list: Call Obama's office and. . .

. . .ask for Mike Strautmanis (Elections LA) and find out status, and see if there's anything citizen lobbyists can do to get this moving.

And, perhaps nudge Dodd (Ranking Member Committee on Rules and Admin to find out what he's doing to get S.1975 on the agenda.

And, while I'm at it, ask folks in Lautenberg and Martinez's offices why the heck they aren't co-sponsoring this.

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2. Count Every Vote Act of 2005

S.450
Title: A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a voter-verified paper record, to improve provisional balloting, to impose additional requirements under such Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham (introduced 2/17/2005) Cosponsors (6)
Related Bills: H.R.939
Latest Major Action: 2/17/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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COSPONSORS(6), ALPHABETICAL : (Sort: by date)
Sen Boxer, Barbara - 2/17/2005
Sen Dayton, Mark - 3/7/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. - 2/17/2005
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. - 2/17/2005
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 3/1/2005
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. - 2/17/2005

S.450
Count Every Vote Act of 2005 (Introduced in Senate)

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) Short Title- This Act may be cited as the `Count Every Vote Act of 2005'.

(b) Table of Contents- The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I--VOTER VERIFICATION AND AUDITING

Sec. 101. Promoting accuracy, integrity, and security through preservation of a voter-verified paper record or hard copy.

Sec. 102. Requirement for mandatory recounts.

Sec. 103. Specific, delineated requirement of study, testing, and development of best practices.

Sec. 104. Voter verification and audit capacity funding.

Sec. 105. Reports and provision of security consultation services.

Sec. 106. Improvements to voting systems.

TITLE II--PROVISIONAL BALLOTS

Sec. 201. Requirements for casting and counting provisional ballots.

TITLE III--ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT OF 2002

Subtitle A--Shortening Voter Wait Times

Sec. 301. Minimum required voting systems, poll workers, and election resources.

Sec. 302. Requirements for jurisdictions with substantial voter wait times.

Subtitle B--No-Excuse Absentee Voting

Sec. 311. No-excuse absentee voting.

Subtitle C--Collection and Dissemination of Election Data

Sec. 321. Data collection.

Subtitle D--Ensuring Well Run Elections

Sec. 331. Training of election officials.

Sec. 332. Impartial administration of elections.

Subtitle E--Standards for Purging Voters

Sec. 341. Standards for purging voters.

Subtitle F--Election Day Registration and Early Voting

Sec. 351. Election day registration.

Sec. 352. Early voting.

TITLE IV--VOTER REGISTRATION AND IDENTIFICATION

Sec. 401. Voter registration.

Sec. 402. Establishing voter identification.

Sec. 403. Requirement for Federal certification of technological security of voter registration lists.

TITLE V--PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES

Sec. 501. Prohibition on certain campaign activities.

TITLE VI--ENDING DECEPTIVE PRACTICES

Sec. 601. Ending deceptive practices.

TITLE VII--CIVIC PARTICIPATION BY EX-OFFENDERS

Sec. 701. Voting rights of individuals convicted of criminal offenses.

TITLE VIII--FEDERAL ELECTION DAY ACT

Sec. 801. Short title.

Sec. 802. Federal Election Day as a public holiday.

Sec. 803. Study on encouraging government employees to serve as poll workers.

TITLE IX--TRANSMISSION OF CERTIFICATE OF ASCERTAINMENT OF ELECTORS

Sec. 901. Transmission of certificate of ascertainment of electors.

TITLE X--STRENGTHENING THE ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION

Sec. 1001. Strengthening the Election Assistance Commission.

Sec. 1002. Repeal of exemption of Election Assistance Commission from certain Government contracting requirements.

Sec. 1003. Authorization of appropriations.

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3. Link!

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s1975is.txt.pdf

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4. kick

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5. I hope these two bills get advanced in Congress. n/t