107th Congress / Bills / S 565

Title

A bill to require States and localities to meet uniform and nondiscriminatory election technology and administration requirements applicable to Federal elections, to establish grant programs to provide assistance to States and localities to met those requirements and to improve election technology and the administration of Federal elections, to establish the Election Administration Commission, and for other purposes.

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Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
4/11/02	Senate	Passed	Session 2, roll call 65: On Passage of the Bill S.565, as amended; Martin Luther King, Jr. Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2002
4/11/02	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 64: On the Amendment Clinton Amdt. No. 3108; To establish a residual ballot performance benchmark.
4/11/02	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 63: On the Amendment Roberts Amdt. No. 2907; To eliminate the administrative procedures of requiring election officials to notify voters by mail whether or not their individual vote was counted.
2/27/02	Senate	Failed	Session 2, roll call 38: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Schumer Amdt. No. 2937; To permit the use of a signature or personal mark for the purpose of verifying the identity of voters who register by mail, and for other purposes.
2/26/02	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 36: On the Amendment Cleland Amdt. No. 2883; To amend the short title to read ?Martin Luther King, Jr. Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001".
2/14/02	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 34: On the Amendment Burns Amdt. No. 2887; To clarify the ability of election officials to remove registrants from official list of voters on grounds of change of residence.
2/14/02	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 33: On the Amendment Lieberman Amdt. No. 2890; To authorize administrative leave for Federal employees to perform poll worker service in Federal elections.
2/14/02	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 32: On the Amendment Durbin Amdt. No. 2895; To eliminate the special treatment of punchcard voting systems under the voting systems standards.
2/14/02	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 31: On the Amendment Reid Amdt. No. 2879; To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified persons who have served their sentences.