Voter Purge Protection Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Restricts States from removing registrants from federal-election voter rolls without objective and reliable evidence of ineligibility, requires notice and public disclosure around removals, and tightens standards for list-maintenance notices.
Who Benefits and How
Registered voters could gain stronger protection against erroneous or aggressive voter-roll removals and more opportunities to contest or correct those removals.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State and local election officials would face stricter evidentiary, notice, accessibility, and public-disclosure requirements when conducting voter list maintenance.
Key Provisions
- Bars removal of registrants from federal-election voter rolls without objective and reliable evidence of ineligibility.
- Specifies factors that cannot count as reliable evidence on their own, including failure to vote or respond to election mail in specified circumstances.
- Requires removed voters to receive notice and an opportunity to demonstrate eligibility and be reinstated.
- Requires public notice when States conduct general voter-list maintenance programs and tightens standards for section 8(d) notices.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Restricts States from removing registrants from federal-election voter rolls without objective and reliable evidence of ineligibility, requires notice and public disclosure around removals, and tightens standards for list-maintenance notices.
Key Policy Areas
Elections, Civil Rights, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Restricts States from removing registrants from federal-election voter rolls without objective and reliable evidence of ineligibility, requires notice and public disclosure around removals, and tightens standards for list-maintenance notices.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Registered voters at risk of erroneous or overbroad removal from federal-election voter rolls
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- State and local election officials required to satisfy stricter evidence and notice rules for voter list maintenance
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Padilla (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Van …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Registered voters at risk of erroneous removal from federal-election voter rolls
State and local election officials required to document, disclose, and administer voter-list removals under stricter federal standards
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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