The 2024 election is two years away, but the upcoming lame-duck session may effectively be Congress’ last chance to fund it
A voter walks to cast their ballot as another fills his out at the Eleanor Boathouse polling place on the Southside of Chicago, Nov. 8, 2022. | Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo.
Most are cautiously optimistic that Congress will set aside money for election offices, assuming there is an agreement on a larger funding package, with appropriators in both chambers listing $400 million for funding for “election security grants” in initial announcements earlier this year. Federal funding of elections has been sporadic over the last two decades, since the last major federal elections law — called the Help America Vote Act, which was a response to the chaotic 2000 election — passed in 2002.
“One of the most positive signals that we’ve had about the real viability of this being funding that we can get over the finish line is the fact that we’ve seen the bipartisan support for this grow even over the last few weeks,” said Tiana Epps-Johnson, the founder and executive director for the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
“There’s a variety of reasons that, from an operational perspective, election departments need this funding yesterday,” Epps-Johnson said.
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