Wisconsin GOP Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of the House Administration Committee, on Thursday announced a comprehensive package of election reforms titled the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act, which if signed into law would require baseline requirements be put in place for state election administration. “Americans should be confident their elections are being run with integrity – including commonsense voter ID requirements, clean voter rolls, and citizenship verification,” said Steil, whose committee has oversight authority of federal elections. “These reforms will improve voter confidence, bolster election integrity, and make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat.”
Steil intends to formally introduce the legislation Friday.
Below are the key points:
Require photo identification to vote
Require states to verify citizenship of individuals when registering to vote
Implement stronger routine voter list maintenance requirements in states
Require mail-in ballots to be received by the close of polls on election day
Require states to use auditable paper ballots
Ban ballot harvesting
Ban ranked choice voting
Ban universal vote by mail
