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