Sponsors (29)
The bill strengthens voter protections and election integrity by requiring objective verification and rapid, accessible notice before removing people from federal registration lists, but it raises administrative burdens and could make maintaining accurate rolls more difficult and costly for state and local officials.
Voters (including people with disabilities) and recently removed registrants: the bill requires objective, reliable evidence before removing someone from the federal voter registration list and mandates individualized, accessible public notice within 48 hours including grounds and how to contest or reinstate, enabling quicker restoration and reducing wrongful purges.
Voters and election administrators: the bill limits use of nonvoting or nonresponse as the basis for removals and focuses removal actions on verified ineligibility, which reduces erroneous purges and supports election integrity and public confidence.
State and local election offices (and taxpayers): requiring objective verification and 48-hour individualized/public notices increases administrative workload and could raise election administration costs (staff, outreach, systems) to comply with tighter verification and notification timelines.
State and local election officials and voters: by prohibiting use of failure-to-vote or nonresponse as evidence for removal, the bill narrows list-maintenance tools and could make it harder to remove genuinely moved or deceased registrants, potentially increasing inaccuracies on rolls and complicating maintenance.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars removals based on nonvoting; requires objective evidence of ineligibility and individualized plus public notice within 48 hours; tightens address-change removals.
Limits when states can remove people from voter registration lists by requiring objective, reliable evidence that a person is ineligible to vote in federal elections. It bars using nonvoting or failure-to-respond (except returned mail) as grounds for removal, requires individualized notice to removed registrants within 48 hours, and requires rapid public notice and accessibility accommodations after list-maintenance actions.
Official title: To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit a State from removing the name of any registrant from the official list of voters eligible to vote in elections for Federal office in the State unless the State verifies, on the basis of objective and reliable evidence, that the registrant is ineligible to vote in such elections.
Introduced October 8, 2025 by Joyce Beatty · Last progress October 8, 2025