Bill > HR6246

Introduced Session

Verifying Official Totals for Elections Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a voting system used in a federal election from containing or using any election-dedicated voting system technology which is not deposited by the state (or at the state's option by the vendor of the technology) with the National Software Reference Library of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) before the election. Requires the Director of NIST to: (1) hold the technology in escrow; and (2) disclose it and information about it to a qualified person who has entered into a nondisclosure agreement with respect to it, or to whom the Director is permitted or required to disclose the technology under state law.

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Roscoe Bartlett (R),  Sanford Bishop (D),  André Carson (D),  Jim Clyburn (D),  John Conyers (D),  Donna Edwards (D),  Marcia Fudge (D),  Maurice Hinchey (D),  Rush Holt (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  John Lewis (D),  Jim McDermott (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Jared Polis (D),  Laura Richardson (D),  Chris Van Hollen (D),  Frederica Wilson (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation. (on 08/02/2012)

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