---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20307"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20307"
heading: "Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20307"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 203 — Registration and Voting by Absent Uniformed Services Voters and Overseas Voters in Elections for Federal Office"
---

# §20307. Enforcement

- (a) **In general—** The Attorney General may bring a civil action in an appropriate district court for such declaratory or injunctive relief as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.
- (b) **Report to Congress—** Not later than December 31 of each year, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress an annual report on any civil action brought under [subsection (a)](#a) during the preceding year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–410, title I, § 105, Aug. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 927; Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title V, § 587, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2333.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973ff–4 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

2009—Pub. L. 111–84 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b).