Safeguarding Election Infrastructure Act of 2017

Summary

Safeguarding Election Infrastructure Act of 2017 This bill requires voting systems for federal elections to produce paper ballots that the voter may inspect and verify before the vote is cast and counted. The bill also requires (1) the paper ballot to be suitable for manual audits, (2) each state to audit federal election results by administering hand counts of paper ballots at randomly selected precincts, and (3) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress and the affected state if DHS believes a state's voter-registration database or voting system has been breached.

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 7 November 2017

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  Introduced in House · EN · 7 November 2017

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 7 November 2017

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