1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting the Right to Independent and Democratic Elections Act or the PRIDE Voting Act . 2. Election Security Grant Program (a) Establishment (1) In general There is hereby established an Election Security grant program (in this section referred to as the program ) under which the Secretary of Homeland Security awards grants to States to carry out one of more of the following activities: (A) Implementing or improving the use of auditable paper ballots in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (2), including the updating of any voting system in order to implement or improve the use of auditable paper ballots. (B) Conducting post-election risk limiting audits. (C) Implementing cybersecurity standards and best practices developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including frameworks, consistent with section 2(c) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act ( 15 U.S.C. 272(c) ). In implementing such standards and best practices, a State shall, to the extent practicable, utilize CIS Controls from the nonprofit Center for Internet Security (formerly the 20 Critical Security Controls). (2) Paper ballot requirement (A) Voter-verified paper ballots The requirements described in this paragraph, with respect to the use of paper ballots in a voting system, are the following: (i) Paper ballot requirement (I) The voting system shall require the use of an individual, durable, voter-verified, paper ballot of the voter’s vote that shall be marked and made available for inspection and verification by the voter before the voter’s vote is cast and counted, and which shall be counted by hand or read by a digital scanning device or other counting device. For purposes of this subclause, the term individual, durable, voter-verified, paper ballot means a paper ballot marked by the voter by hand or a paper ballot marked through the use of a nontabulating ballot marking device or system. (II) The voting system shall provide the voter with an