---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21085"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21085"
heading: "Methods of implementation left to discretion of State"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21085"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter III — Uniform and Nondiscriminatory Election Technology and Administration Requirements"
  - "Part A — Requirements"
---

# §21085. Methods of implementation left to discretion of State


The specific choices on the methods of complying with the requirements of this subchapter shall be left to the discretion of the [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title III, § 306, formerly § 305, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1714; renumbered § 306, Pub. L. 118–106, § 2(a)(1), Oct. 4, 2024, 138 Stat. 1591.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title III of Pub. L. 107–252, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1704, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of title III to the Code, see Tables.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15485 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.