with Tonya RileyDemocrats yesterday released their most ambitious and detailed plan yet to fundamentally reshape U.S. voting systems in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. But it couples that money with a slate of new mandates for state and local election officials that will last long after the pandemic ends. “There’s a lot in this bill that will absolutely look to Republicans like a Democratic wish list,” Edward Perez, global director of technology development at the OSET Institute, a nonprofit election technology organization, told me. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)The Democratic proposals underscore how partisan the topic of election security has become at the federal level. The Brennan Center at New York University estimated a $2 billion federal price tag for those upgrades — or $1.6 billion after the previous round of coronavirus election money.

Source: Washington Post May 13, 2020 11:37 UTC