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Election officials in the U.S. face daunting challenges in 2024.

And Congress isn't coming to help

A person places mail-in ballots at a mail-in ballot drop box at the Clark County Election Department, Oct. 29, 2020, in Las Vegas.
Associated Press

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY ing equipment and training cials and undermined pub- at the federal level and try- list of critical infrastructure,
Associated Press staff. lic confidence. ing to manage a lot of dif- Congress has sent $995 mil-
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Election officials face a long Michigan Secretary of ferent competing risks and lion to states for election
election season already un- list of challenges this year, State Jocelyn Benson said it challenges that have only administration and security
derway, some state elec- including potential cyber- was "demoralizing and dis- escalated in recent years,” needs.
tion officials are expressing attacks waged by foreign appointing" that the feder- said Benson, a Democrat. In Colorado, the money
frustration that Congress governments, criminal ran- al government hasn't com- “It makes us feel like we’re has been used to develop
has yet to allocate federal somware gangs attacking mitted to investing in this on our own.” a system for voters to track
money they have come to computer systems and the year's presidential election. Since the 2016 election and their ballots and pay for
rely on to help cover the persistence of election mis- “We are managing federal the federal government’s training for election offi-
costs of securing their sys- information that has led to elections that are the foun- decision to add the na- cials.
tems from attacks, updat- harassment of election offi- dation of who has power tion’s voting systems to its Continued on next page