Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 265, insert after line 9 the following (and conform the succeeding subsection accordingly): ``(d) Surplus Appropriations.--If the amount of funds appropriated for grants authorized under section 298D(a)(2) exceed the amount necessary to meet the requirements of subsection (b), the Commission shall consider the following in making a determination to award remaining funds to a State: ``(1) The record of the State in carrying out the following with respect to the administration of elections for Federal office: ``(A) Providing voting machines that are less than 10 years old. ``(B) Implementing strong chain of custody procedures for the physical security of voting equipment and paper records at all stages of the process. ``(C) Conducting pre-election testing on every voting machine and ensuring that paper ballots are available wherever electronic machines are used. ``(D) Maintaining offline backups of voter registration lists. ``(E) Providing a secure voter registration database that logs requests submitted to the database. ``(F) Publishing and enforcing a policy detailing use limitations and security safeguards to protect the personal information of voters in the voter registration process. ``(G) Providing secure processes and procedures for reporting vote tallies. ``(H) Providing a secure platform for disseminating vote totals.…”