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The Trump administration has indicated it may withhold tens of millions of dollars in election security funding if states don’t comply with its voting policy goals. The money comes from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant program, and voting officials say new requirements from the administration will make the money inaccessible for most of the country. NPR is the first news outlet to report on the changes. Miles Parks and Stephen Fowler, NPR.
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Election Official Turnover Rates through the 2024 Election
Joshua Ferrer, Daniel M. Thompson, Grace Klinefelter, Rachel Orey
Bipartisan Policy Center
Last spring, the Bipartisan Policy Center partnered with Joshua Ferrer and Daniel M. Thompson of the University of California, Los Angeles, to examine nationwide turnover rates of chief local election officials since 2000. The report found that turnover rose from 28% in 2004 to 39% in 2022.
Now, a new update to the report examines turnover rates through 2024, which saw the highest rate of turnover yet: 41% of election officials administering the presidential election were different from those in charge of running the presidential election four years prior.
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