Arizona – Public News Service – Article: Official Calls on Federal Government for Election Funding
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Article: Arizona elections official calls for federal lawmakers to include funding for election administration and security.
Congress recently cleared legislation to extend government funding into March, but one Arizona elections official would like to see federal lawmakers include funding for election administration and security.
Patty Hansen, recorder for Coconino County in Northern Arizona, has been involved with elections administration for 36 years, and said with the continuing exodus of many election recorders and directors in recent years because of increased threats and harassment, what remains is what she called a “huge institutional void.”
She pointed out in rural counties such as hers, funding to improve election systems would go a long way.
“Some jurisdictions are wealthier than others and have a better tax base,” Hansen observed. “I do think it is something the federal government should be looking at for providing the necessary funds across the nation because elections are the foundation of our democracy.”
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Missouri and Arizona – AlterNet: Article ‘Zuckerbucks’: 2020 Election Conspiracy Theories Return
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Article: While the Left continues to deny partisanship involvement with “Zuckerbucks,” CTCL now has a new program, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence.
It turns out that right-wing activists have learned the same lesson as Hollywood: Everyone loves a sequel.
You may remember the nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life from the so-called “Zuckerbucks” controversy during the 2020 election. That was when a couple of nonprofits including the Center for Tech and Civic Life distributed hundreds of millions of dollars that had been donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, as no-strings-attached grants to local election officials. Despite no evidence of partisanship (and lots of people checked), right-wing activists and critics labeled the funding a political act aimed at boosting turnout of Democratic voters.
CTCL now has a new program, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence. It’s a group of 15 counties, all of whom submitted applications, who work together to share best practices and create things such as a voluntary set of standards for recruitment, training, management, and retention of poll workers, a major concern for election officials around the country.
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