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The debate over the role of outside money reveals a broader worry among election experts, who say there are significant shortcomings in local government funding of election offices.

The debate over the role of outside money reveals a broader worry among election experts, who say there are significant shortcomings in local government funding of election offices.

The debate over the role of outside money reveals a broader worry among election experts, who say there are significant shortcomings in local government funding of election offices.

The debate over the role of outside money reveals a broader worry among election experts, who say there are significant shortcomings in local government funding of election offices.

This article was originally published at Stateline. This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of…

This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day. All of the state laws came in the past four years, pushed by conservative lawmakers and activists who claim that Democratic voters […] The post Cash-strapped election offices have fewer resources after bans on private grants appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices,

Twenty-eight states have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices

This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day. All of the state laws came in the past four years, pushed by conservative lawmakers and activists who claim that Democratic voters […] The post Cash-strapped election offices have fewer resources after bans on private grants appeared first on Stateline.

This story was originally published by Votebeat and Wisconsin Watch.   Wisconsinites will vote Tuesday on two proposed amendments to the state constitution that could reshape how elections are run in the state — but voters, and many election officials, don’t know exactly how the broadly written proposals would be interpreted by state election officials...