1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Candidate Voice Fraud Prohibition Act . 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the prohibitions on paid-for political communications contained within this Act serve the purpose of furthering a compelling government interest by serving the informational interest of voters by preventing voters from hearing materially deceptive and intentionally falsified renderings of candidate voices in political communications, as this type of malicious content in political communications is innately harmful to free and fair elections. 3. Prohibition on the distribution of certain paid-for political communications that contain materially deceptive audio generated by artificial intelligence which impersonate a candidate’s voice (a) In general Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 325. Prohibition on the distribution of certain communications that contain materially deceptive audio generated by artificial intelligence (a) In general Except as provided in subsection (b), with respect to a communication described in section 318(a) for which a disbursement is made, no person, political committee, or other entity may distribute such a communication if the communication— (1) contains materially deceptive audio generated by artificial intelligence which impersonates a candidate’s voice; (2) is distributed with actual malice; (3) is intended to injure the candidate’s reputation or to deceive a voter into voting against the candidate; and (4) is distributed— (A) within 90 days of a general, special, or runoff election of the office sought by the candidate