“Paper ballots, that’s the biggest win in this bill,” said Matt Bernhard, an election security advocate with the group Verified Voting. The fight over election security specifically has always come down to a delicate balance -- and this go-round is likely to be as contentious as ever. The Secure Elections Act, a bipartisan bill in the Republican-controlled Senate last session, didn’t go nearly as far as this latest House bill and still never reached a floor vote. And a House bill that required paper ballots won 126 Democratic co-sponsors last Congress, but not a single Republican one. Both mandates are tied to receiving election security grant money.

Source: Washington Post January 07, 2019 12:33 UTC