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S 565 - Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001 - Key Vote
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Legislation - Placed on Calendar (House) - April 11, 2002
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (99-1) - April 11, 2002 (Key vote)
Title: Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001
Vote to pass a bill that would significantly overhaul election procedures and require states to adopt uniform provisions related to their implementation.
- Requires states to install voting machines and electronic systems that alert voters when errors have occurred on ballots and then gives them a chance to correct the errors.
- Requires states to offer a private voting machine for blind or disabled voters at each polling place.
- Requires local election officials to mail sample ballots to registered voters 10 days prior to a federal election with the following information:
- Election date;
- Hours for voting; and
- Basic information on how to vote.
- Provides aid to states and localities to modernize voting machines.
- Establishes a Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures to study election technology, voting, and election administration, and to report their findings to Congress.
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - March 19, 2001
Title: Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001
Sponsors
- Christopher J. 'Chris' Dodd (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka Sr. (HI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Max S. Baucus (MT - D)
- Evan Bayh (IN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph Robinette 'Joe' Biden Jr. (DE - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jeff Bingaman (NM - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara Boxer (CA - D)
- John B. Breaux (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert C. Byrd (WV - D) (Out Of Office)
- Maria Cantwell (WA - D)
- Jean Carnahan (MO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas Richard 'Tom' Carper (DE - D)
- Joseph Maxwell 'Max' Cleland (GA - ) (Out Of Office)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kent Conrad (ND - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jon Stevens Corzine (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas A. 'Tom' Daschle (SD - ) (Out Of Office)
- Mark Dayton (MN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Byron L. Dorgan (ND - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard J. 'Dick' Durbin (IL - D)
- John Reid Edwards (NC - ) (Out Of Office)
- Russell D. 'Russ' Feingold (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA - D)
- Daniel Robert 'Bob' Graham (FL - ) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas 'Tom' Harkin (IA - D)
- Ernest F. 'Fritz' Hollings (SC - ) (Out Of Office)
- Daniel K. Inouye (HI - D) (Out Of Office)
- James Merrill 'Jim' Jeffords (VT - I) (Out Of Office)
- Timothy Peter 'Tim' Johnson (SD - D)
- Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy Sr. (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Forbes Kerry (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Herbert H. 'Herb' Kohl (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mary L. Landrieu (LA - D)
- Patrick J. Leahy (VT - D)
- Carl Levin (MI - D)
- Joseph I. 'Joe' Lieberman (CT - I) (Out Of Office)
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln (AR - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara A. Mikulski (MD - D)
- Zell Bryan Miller (GA - ) (Out Of Office)
- Patty Murray (WA - D)
- E. Benjamin 'Ben' Nelson (NE - D) (Out Of Office)
- William Clarence 'Bill' Nelson Sr. (FL - D)
- John Francis 'Jack' Reed (RI - D)
- Harry M. Reid (NV - D)
- John D. 'Jay' Rockefeller IV (WV - D)
- Paul S. Sarbanes (MD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Charles E. 'Chuck' Schumer (NY - D)
- Debbie Ann Stabenow (MI - D)
- Robert G. 'Bob' Torricelli (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Paul D. Wellstone (MN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ron Wyden (OR - D)
