POLL Act – Voting Wait Times & Election Administration
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2023-03-01 — Early Voting Act: cross-connection with early-voting-access: Early-voting expansion is a complementary lever for reducing Election Day wait times addressed by the POLL Act. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-08-05 — POLL Act: POLL Act (HR4911) introduced: caps federal-election polling wait times at 30 minutes, sets DOJ Civil Rights Division–enforced minimum resource standards for voting systems and poll workers, authorizes EAC payments to states for prevention, and prohibits chief state election officials from active partisan campaigning in races they oversee. (novelty: 3)