Sky Schaudt/KJZZ Voters line up at a polling station at an Arizona Motor Vehicle Division office in north Phoenix on Nov. 3, 2020. Election officials across the country, including some in Arizona, turned to private grants to help fund the cost of a safe and secure election amid the pandemic. Last week, Republicans in the Arizona House voted to prohibit Arizona’s election officials from accepting those dollars ever again. HB 2569 passed on a party-line vote. It would ban officials at all levels of government — city, county and state — from accepting private funds to help pay for any aspect of election operations, including voter registration.