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.

United States115th CongressHR-1398House of Representatives
Updated: Mar 7, 2017

Summary

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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  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

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