The latest worrying news on this front comes from journalist Gopal Ratnam writing for Roll Call:
Officials from the Election Assistance Commission, a federal agency responsible for overseeing voting machines used in thousands of jurisdictions across the country and helping states adopt good election administration practices, pleaded with lawmakers for more money to do their jobs ahead of the 2020 elections.
The federal agency is working with a staff and budget that are about half what they were 10 years ago, officials said Wednesday as lawmakers grappled with how to beef up the agency.
The commission “lacks sufficient funding for the human capital capacity to address” dozens of areas where it needs to do work before the national elections in 2020, Chairwoman Christy McCormick and three other commissioners said in a joint statement prepared for the Senate Rules and Administration Committee.
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