Election Experts Alarmed As Costs Escalate And Funding Dwindles

This article by Mike DeBonis and Amy Gardner is published by The Washington Post. Here is an excerpt:

When a global pandemic threatened to throw the 2020 presidential election into chaos, hundreds of millions of dollars flowed to state and local election agencies to ensure they had the resources to conduct a fair and accessible election, ultimately allowing administrators to manage record turnout with relatively few hiccups.

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.

Read the full article here.