Election experts sound alarms as costs escalate and funding dwindles

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/election-experts-sound-alarms-as-costs-escalate-and-funding-dwindles/ar-AATWSxp?ocid=U483DHP&li=BBnb7Kz

Two years later, that money is gone and while the pandemic has ebbed it has not disappeared, and new challenges have arisen, including rising security threats, supply-chain disruptions and escalating costs for basic materials such as paper ballots, which have gone up by as much as 50 percent around the country, according to some estimates.

Election officials and voting experts are now warning as the midterm elections get underway that new funding is needed to avoid significant problems in November.

“The scale of the need is in literally the tens of billions of dollars,” said Tianna Epps-Johnson, executive director of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that distributed more than $300 million in grants to election agencies in 2020, funded by donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.

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Making it hard to vote IS part of the GQP platform.