in its major provisions, the new law requires the states to:
-replace all their lever-operated and punch-card voting devices by 2006;
-upgrade their administration of elections, esp. through the better training of local election officials and of those who work in precinct polling places on election day;
-centralize and computerize their voter registration systems, to facilitate the id of qualified voters on election day and so minimize fraudulent voting;
-provide for provisional voting, so a person whose eligibility to vote has been challenged can cast a ballot that will be counted if it is later found that he/ she is in fact, qualified to vote