; sense of Congress (a) Short title This title may be cited as the Election Security Act . (b) Sense of Congress on need To improve election infrastructure security It is the sense of Congress that, in light of the lessons learned from Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, the Federal Government should intensify its efforts to improve the security of election infrastructure in the United States, including through the use of individual, durable, paper ballots marked by the voter by hand. A Financial Support for Election Infrastructure 1 Voting System Security Improvement Grants 3001. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security improvements (a) Availability of grants Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ( 52 U.S.C. 21001 et seq.), as amended by section 1905(a), is amended by adding at the end the following new part: 8 Grants for Obtaining Compliant Paper Ballot Voting Systems and Carrying Out Voting System Security Improvements 298. Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security improvements (a) Availability and use of grant The Commission shall make a grant to each eligible State— (1) to replace a voting system— (A) which does not meet the requirements which are first imposed on the State pursuant to the amendments made by the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019 with a voting system which does meet such requirements, for use in the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in November 2020, or (B) which does meet such requirements but which is not in compliance with the most recent voluntary voting system guidelines issued by the Commission prior to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 with another system which does meet such requirements and is in compliance with such guidelines