I had a really interesting interaction with Tennessee recently at a conference, and the Tennessee secretary of state stood up and said, a big issue for us secretaries is making sure we have the funding necessary to run elections appropriately. And The federal government has come in through HAVA funds, which allows us to buy equipment. buy equipment for our bigger counties, for our rural counties. Some of our rural counties need support and need help to have the equipment to run fair and secure elections. (13:53–14:00)
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Asserts that HAVA funds are used to purchase election equipment.
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