{"id":36814,"date":"2021-06-23T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36814"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:40:09","slug":"new-election-security-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36814","title":{"rendered":"NEW ELECTION SECURITY FUNDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday included $500 million for election security grants in one of the proposed appropriations bills for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed fiscal 2022 Financial Services and General Government bill would give $500 million to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to distribute to states and territories to help address election security concerns. This includes moving to voting machines with voter-verified paper ballots and improving election administration.<\/p>\n<p>The EAC would be given 45 days to distribute the funds once the bill is signed into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36815,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36814\/revisions\/36815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}