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States Push for Outstanding Election Security Funds Ahead of Midterms

Route Fifty: Secretaries of state want Congress to appropriate $396 million in previously approved funds to update their election infrastructure, after Senate Intelligence Committee lawmakers reiterated Tuesday that states are primarily responsible for running elections.

This isn’t the first time the secretaries have pressed Congress to allot the remainder of Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, funding. But less than eight months out from the midterm elections, the Intelligence Committee released draft recommendations on election security. Among them: the Department of Homeland Security “should expedite security clearances for appropriate state and local officials” and “declassify information more quickly.”

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