Preventing Ballot Drop Box and Mail Fraud Act

(1) by striking A person and inserting (a) In general.—A person; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:

A person who, in any election for Federal office, uses a post office, authorized depository of mail matter, or drop box which is provided by an election official for the collection of voted ballots to knowingly and willfully transmit a voted ballot that is known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held, shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 20 years plus one additional year for each such ballot the person transmits, or both.

The Attorney General shall establish a system through which persons may report incidents involving the transmission of fraudulent ballots in elections for Federal office through the use of a post office, authorized depository of mail matter, or drop box which is provided by an election official for the collection of voted ballots, including reports made through a toll-free hotline and a confidential online portal.

The Attorney General shall establish the system under subsection (a) not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Subparagraph (A) of section 303(a)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(2)) is amended—

(1) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); and

(2) by inserting after clause (ii) the following new clause:

(iii) For purposes of removing names of ineligible voters from the official list of eligible voters by reason of citizenship status, the State shall coordinate the computerized list with records of courts which have recused individuals from serving on a jury on the grounds that the individuals are not citizens of the United States.

If a United States district court or a court of any State or local jurisdiction recuses an individual from serving on a jury on the grounds that the individual is not a citizen of the United States, the court shall transmit a notice of the individual’s recusal—

(A) to the chief State election official of the State in which the individual resides; and

(B) to the Attorney General.

For purposes of this subsection—

(A) the chief State election official of a State is the individual designated by the State under section 10 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20509) to be responsible for coordination of the State’s responsibilities under such Act; and

(B) the term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.