During the last nine days, several election law bills of interest have added new co-sponsors.
HR1826, public funding for congressional candidates, added 7 co-sponsors and now has 64.
HR3025, to require states to use bipartisan commissions to draw U.S. House district boundaries, added 6 co-sponsors and now has 20.
HR2894, to require states to use only vote-counting machines with a paper trail, added one co-sponsor and now has 82.
HR2499, for a popular vote on Puerto Rico’s political status, added 5 co-sponsors and now has 161.
Actually HR2894 requires paper ballots that voters mark, not paper “trails” and requires a minimum of from 3% to 10% manual counts of the paper ballots.
To read a synopsis of both the great things HR2894 does, along with some suggested improvements, see
http://electionmathematics.org/em-audits/US/legislation/AnalysisHoltElectionAudit2009-3.pdf