Election Assistance

Definition

COMMISSION, provides for federal funds for jurisdictions to upgrade their voting systems, sets up a scheme for testing voting systems and impos es new standards on voting systems used in election for FEDERAL OFFICES. Abbreviated HAVA. Help America Vote Foundation A federally chartered nonprofit charitable corporation established under HAVA, at 42 U. S. C. §15526, to, among other objectives, to “mobilize secondary school students (including students educated in the home) in the United States to participate in the election process in a nonpartisan manner as poll workers.”.