EAIElectoral Access Index

52 USC § 20921 establishes the EAC as 'an independent entity' with the Standards Board, Board of Advisors, and Technical Guidelines Development Committee under HAVA.

“There is hereby established as an independent entity the Election Assistance Commission”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: 52 USC § 20901 (HAVA state payments); not voter qualifications.

52 USC § 20507(a)(3) codifies that voters may be removed by reason of 'criminal conviction or mental incapacity' as provided by state law. Federal NVRA codifies the removal-criteria floor (statute); specific disqualification framework and restoration are state-law matters.

“provide that the name of a registrant may not be removed from the official list of eligible voters except”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: 52 USC § 30101 (FECA definitions); not voter ID grounding. Federal voter-ID rules under HAVA § 21083(b) apply to first-time mail-in registrants — not surfaced for this datapoint.

52 USC § 21083(b) codifies ID requirements for first-time mail-in registrants but the surfaced text focuses on the statewide registration list; specific ID enumeration not visible in the surfaced window.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: 52 USC § 21122 (HAVA College Program); not free state-ID.

52 USC § 21082 codifies HAVA provisional voting: any voter declaring eligibility but not on the list (or whose eligibility is challenged) shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot, with statutory verification procedure and free voter access to ballot-status information system. At-polls cure for ID/registration issues.

“shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot”

52 USC § 10101(a)(2)(B) codifies that no person acting under color of law shall 'deny the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission on any record or paper... if such error or omission is not material' — anti-disqualification rule that supports ID-rejection challenges, but not a specific appeal procedure.

52 USC § 20302(a)(2) codifies a 30-day pre-election deadline for UOCAVA absentee registration. § 20507(a)(1) codifies that states must accept registrations 'not later than the lesser of 30 days, or the period provided by State law, before the date of the election' (NVRA floor).

“permit absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot”

52 USC § 20503 codifies the NVRA enumerated registration methods: (1) motor-vehicle application, (2) mail application, (3) in-person application at designated sites. Federal-floor enumeration of methods.

“each State shall establish procedures to register to vote in elections for Federal office”

52 USC § 20507(a)(2) codifies that states must 'require the appropriate State election official to send notice to each applicant of the disposition of the application' — disposition-notice path implies cure opportunity, but the specific cure procedure is left to states.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: 52 USC § 20985 (electronic voting study); not registration-rejection challenge.

52 USC § 20507 codifies the NVRA roll-maintenance criteria: removal only by (A) request, (B) state law for criminal conviction or mental incapacity, (C) general program for death/residence-change. Federal statutory floor for roll maintenance.

52 USC § 20507(d) codifies the NVRA pre-removal procedure: confirmation notice + 2-election waiting period before a voter may be removed for residence change. Federal statutory pre-purge notice + cure period.

52 USC § 21083 codifies the statewide voter registration list including 'unique identifier' and 'safeguards' for integrity, security, confidentiality; partial security framework without specific encryption or breach-notification standards.

52 USC § 10503 (VRA bilingual provisions) codifies multilingual ballot triggers: covered States/political subdivisions defined by Census-based criteria (5% / 10,000 voters speaking a single language minority and limited-English proficient, plus illiteracy rate above national average). Statutory triggers explicit.

“no covered State or political subdivision shall provide voting materials only in the English language”

52 USC § 10508 codifies the right to receive assistance by a person of the voter's choice with enumerated exclusions (employer, employer's agent, union officer, union agent). Statutory right + assist-by-choice rule + exclusions.

“Any voter who requires assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read or write may be given assistance by a person of the voter”

52 USC § 10508 expressly includes 'inability to read or write' alongside blindness/disability — illiteracy assistance with same elector-choice rule and exclusions.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: 52 USC § 20981 (EAC studies); not polling-place hours.

52 USC § 21081 codifies voting systems standards applicable to 'paper ballot voting system, a punch card voting system, or a central count voting system (including mail-in absentee ballots and mail-in ballots)'.

52 USC § 20302 codifies the comprehensive UOCAVA framework: states shall permit absent uniformed services and overseas voters to use absentee registration and absentee ballots, with 30-day acceptance deadline, federal write-in absentee ballot path, standardized procedures.

“permit absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

52 USC § 21082(a) codifies the federal right to cast a provisional ballot when a voter declares registration but is denied. Statutory adjudication procedure: written affirmation, transmission to local election official, verification under state law, voter ascertain-status system.