1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Election Subversion Act of 2023 . 2. Restrictions on removal of local election administrators in administration of elections for Federal office (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Congress has explicit and broad authority to regulate the time, place, and manner of Federal elections under the Elections Clause under article I, section 4, clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States, including by establishing standards for the fair, impartial, and uniform administration of Federal elections by State and local officials. (2) The Elections Clause was understood from the framing of the Constitution of the United States to contain words of great latitude, granting Congress broad power over Federal elections and a plenary right to preempt State regulation in this area. As made clear at the Constitutional Convention and the State ratification debates that followed, this grant of congressional authority was meant to insure free and fair elections, promote the uniform administration of Federal elections, and preserve and restore to the people their equal and sacred rights of election. . (3) In the founding debates on the Elections Clause, many delegates also argued that a broad grant of authority to Congress over Federal elections was necessary to check any abuses that might be made of the discretionary power to regulate the time, place, and manner of elections granted the States, including attempts at partisan entrenchment, malapportionment, and the exclusion of political minorities. As the Supreme Court has recognized, the Elections Clause empowers Congress to protect the elections on which its existence depends, Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U.S. 651, 658 (1884), and protect the citizen in the exercise of rights conferred by the Constitution of the United States essential to the healthy organization of the government itself, id. at 666. (4) The Elections Clause grants Congress plenary and paramount jurisdiction over the whole subject of Federal