To provide funds to give States incentives to invest in practices and technology designed to expedite voting at the polls and simplify voter registration, improve voting system security, and promote automatic voter registration, and for other purposes.
Fair, Accurate, Secure, and Timely Voting Act of 2017 or the FAST Voting Act of 2017 This bill requires the Election Assistance Commission to award grants, on a competitive basis, to states to: (1) improve voter participation, such as by providing flexible registration opportunities, early voting, or absentee voting; (2) improve voting system security, such as by providing voting machines that are less than 10 years old, updating voting equipment to provide a verifiable paper trail at polling places, or implementing strong chain of custody procedures for voting equipment and paper records; and (3) implement automatic voter registration.
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Government Operations and Politics
Computer security and identity theftDisability and paralysisDisability assistanceElections, voting, political campaign regulationForeign language and bilingual programsGovernment information and archivesMilitary personnel and dependentsNatural disastersPerformance measurementRight of privacyState and local government operationsVoting rights
To provide funds to give States incentives to invest in practices and technology designed to expedite voting at the polls and simplify voter registration, improve voting system security, and promote automatic voter registration, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-1398| House
| Updated: 3/7/2017
Fair, Accurate, Secure, and Timely Voting Act of 2017 or the FAST Voting Act of 2017 This bill requires the Election Assistance Commission to award grants, on a competitive basis, to states to: (1) improve voter participation, such as by providing flexible registration opportunities, early voting, or absentee voting; (2) improve voting system security, such as by providing voting machines that are less than 10 years old, updating voting equipment to provide a verifiable paper trail at polling places, or implementing strong chain of custody procedures for voting equipment and paper records; and (3) implement automatic voter registration.
Computer security and identity theftDisability and paralysisDisability assistanceElections, voting, political campaign regulationForeign language and bilingual programsGovernment information and archivesMilitary personnel and dependentsNatural disastersPerformance measurementRight of privacyState and local government operationsVoting rights