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Elections are notoriously underfunded and haven’t seen a windfall like this from the federal government in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting that money out to all the states, and then into the hands of localities that run the elections, with enough time to have a meaningful effect on the 2018 midterm elections is a difficult proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595305722/senators-hold-election-security-hearing-after-releasing-recommendations-for-2018\">receiving congressional approval\u003c/a>, and now less than five months from November’s midterm elections, 33 states have filed the necessary paperwork to begin receiving money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/HAVAgrants-2018.pdf\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11675516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png 1404w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1200x800.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1180x787.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-960x640.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-240x160.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-375x250.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-520x347.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number may seem “disconcertingly low” \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-cybersecurity/2018/05/17/few-states-seek-election-security-funds-221527\">to some\u003c/a>, especially when it was just 11 in mid-May, but there is mixed consensus on what it actually says about the country’s seriousness when it comes to handling threats leading up to the 2018 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More From KQED’s Election Coverage\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elections 2018 Guide and Results\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Judging a state’s preparedness and dedication to securing the vote based on this measure alone is a careless oversimplification,” said Thomas Hicks, the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, which is in charge of distributing the money. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.eac.gov/news/2018/05/21/us-election-assistance-commission-chairman-thomas-hicks-on-states-efforts-to-boost-election-security-and-resiliency/\">penned a letter\u003c/a> in response to a Politico article published last month about the low number of states that had applied for the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The states want the money, and we want to give the money out,” Hicks told NPR in an interview. “It’s mostly that they have to deal with their legislatures, and things like that. They have to jump through some hoops back at home before they can come to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if states are delaying in doing this — there are just steps they need to go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, just because a state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> applied for the money doesn’t mean everything is swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, after all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-system-remains-vulnerable-6-months-before-election-day-what-now\">valid security questions\u003c/a> for election officials across the country: from the fact that 13 states still use electronic voting machines that don’t provide an auditable paper trail, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869599/not-just-ballots-tennessee-hack-shows-election-websites-are-vulnerable-too\">security of local election websites\u003c/a> that have often never seen a major test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if every state did prioritize its own issues, bureaucracy has slowed the process. With midterms nearing, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\">intelligence community warning\u003c/a> about impending interference from Russia, that could be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each state has a completely separate set of variables to deal with in shoring up its systems, from different attitudes about election security within their respective state governments to the disparate nature of voting methods and infrastructure across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1582px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11675521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png 1582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-800x583.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1200x874.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1180x859.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-960x699.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-240x175.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-375x273.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-520x379.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: \u003ca href=\"https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/\">Verified Voting\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(Renee Klahr and Brittany Mayes/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The number [of states that have applied] in the abstract doesn’t worry me,” said Larry Norden, a voting expert at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, who has authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/americas-voting-machines-risk-an-update\">number of articles\u003c/a> warning about outdated voting equipment in the U.S. “But there are specifics that bother me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norden mentioned Nevada as one example; the website \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/state-websites-are-hackable-and-that-could-compromise-election-security/?ex_cid=538twitter\">FiveThirtyEight recently published\u003c/a> an article outlining vulnerabilities with parts of the state’s website (though none were related to elections). In the story, Wayne Thorley, the state’s deputy secretary for elections, said they had not yet fixed one issue because they work “in a resource-constrained world in government.” But Nevada has yet to apply for the $4.3 million it has been allocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, Thorley explained that the delay in drawing down the federal funds is not by choice. To receive the money, the state needs approval from the governor’s finance office, as well as the Nevada legislature, which currently isn’t in session. There’s a special finance committee meeting at the end of the month, where Thorley is expecting to get approval to start spending the money by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is planning to spend the money on cybersecurity improvements and training as well as improving its auditing capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the chairman of the EAC, said he expects every state to have turned in the necessary 2-3 page narrative application by the end of July. The amount each state receives is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597077701/despite-cash-from-congress-key-election-security-issue-may-not-get-fixed\">based on population\u003c/a>, and not on any metric based on that state’s level of security or need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because a state has turned in its application doesn’t indicate election security bliss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota, for instance, is one of the 33 states that has turned in the necessary paperwork to receive their portion of the money. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/18/gov-mark-dayton-lawmakers-have-117-paths-to-failure-can-they-work-them-out/\">disagreement\u003c/a> between Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, and the Republican-controlled legislature over a proposed budget bill means the state won’t be able to access the $6.6 million it is due until after November’s elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There soon will be a $6.6 million account with our name on it,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon told NPR. “Earmarked for precisely the purpose we need: election security. And we can’t touch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon said his office was hoping to use a portion of the money, about $1.5 million, to hire coders for the next four years to modernize and secure the state’s voter registration system, which was built in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he “testified before legislators six different times, made numerous phone calls and held countless in-person meetings with legislators and staff” to try to convince them to separate approval for use of the election security funds from the larger budget bill, knowing that Dayton had issues with other aspects of the bill. He compared attaching approval for use of the funds to attaching the money to the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit an iceberg and did not come to pass,” Simon said. “It ended up a bad result, and the worst part is, a totally avoidable result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, and voting officials nationwide, know ensuring voter confidence is a key task of election officials. Despite the setback on getting funding, Simon remains confident Minnesota’s elections will be secure in November. The intelligence community says despite Russian hackers targeting voter registration systems in a number of states, there’s no evidence any votes were changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, the state set to receive the largest chunk of federal money, also has yet to apply for its share. But California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the state was busy preparing for its June 5 primary, and he wanted to wait until afterward to release its plan for the money. The exact spending details are still being finalized, but Padilla expects the state to spend about $20 million of its $34.5 million on equipment improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the money is welcome for election officials, Padilla said it’s also important to put the amount in perspective. It won’t be a silver bullet. His state alone received \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Help_America_Vote_Act_(HAVA)_of_2002#cite_note-payments-7\">more money\u003c/a> as part of 2002’s Help America Vote Act than the entire country is receiving this year from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will put more of a dink than a dent” in the broader effort to improve election security nationwide, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They have to jump through some hoops back at home before they can come to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if states are delaying in doing this — there are just steps they need to go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, just because a state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> applied for the money doesn’t mean everything is swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, after all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-system-remains-vulnerable-6-months-before-election-day-what-now\">valid security questions\u003c/a> for election officials across the country: from the fact that 13 states still use electronic voting machines that don’t provide an auditable paper trail, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869599/not-just-ballots-tennessee-hack-shows-election-websites-are-vulnerable-too\">security of local election websites\u003c/a> that have often never seen a major test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if every state did prioritize its own issues, bureaucracy has slowed the process. 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In the story, Wayne Thorley, the state’s deputy secretary for elections, said they had not yet fixed one issue because they work “in a resource-constrained world in government.” But Nevada has yet to apply for the $4.3 million it has been allocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, Thorley explained that the delay in drawing down the federal funds is not by choice. To receive the money, the state needs approval from the governor’s finance office, as well as the Nevada legislature, which currently isn’t in session. There’s a special finance committee meeting at the end of the month, where Thorley is expecting to get approval to start spending the money by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is planning to spend the money on cybersecurity improvements and training as well as improving its auditing capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the chairman of the EAC, said he expects every state to have turned in the necessary 2-3 page narrative application by the end of July. 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He compared attaching approval for use of the funds to attaching the money to the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit an iceberg and did not come to pass,” Simon said. “It ended up a bad result, and the worst part is, a totally avoidable result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, and voting officials nationwide, know ensuring voter confidence is a key task of election officials. Despite the setback on getting funding, Simon remains confident Minnesota’s elections will be secure in November. The intelligence community says despite Russian hackers targeting voter registration systems in a number of states, there’s no evidence any votes were changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, the state set to receive the largest chunk of federal money, also has yet to apply for its share. But California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the state was busy preparing for its June 5 primary, and he wanted to wait until afterward to release its plan for the money. 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"content": "\u003cp>With President Donald Trump alleging serious voter fraud in California, and the state’s top election official calling his claim untrue, how much voter fraud is actually under investigation in the Golden State?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not much -- certainly not enough to sway the election, in which California voters chose Hillary Clinton over Trump by \u003ca href=\"http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2016-general/sov/17-presidential-formatted.pdf\">4.3 million votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the California secretary of state is investigating some cases of potential fraud, not a single case opened last year involves allegations of voting by an immigrant who is in the country illegally -- a stark contrast to the picture painted by Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of state received 948 election-related complaints in 2016, according to its response to a CALmatters’ Public Records Act request. The office determined that more than half (525) did not merit criminal investigation. Of the remaining complaints, 140 are still being screened, 194 were noncriminal problems referred to local officials and 89 triggered investigations by the secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office did not provide details on the 194 cases it sent to local authorities. But of the 89 investigations the secretary of state opened in 2016: 56 are allegations of double voting, 16 are allegations of fraudulent voter registration and one is an alleged case of fraudulent voting. The rest allege wrongdoing by candidates, petition circulators and others who work in the elections arena -- not by voters themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the cases the secretary of state's office is investigating and those it referred to counties amount to one one-thousandth of one percent (0.001%) of the more than 23 million votes cast in California’s primary and general elections last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[MillionsOfVotes]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The miniscule number “undercounts the amount of potential fraud because a lot of it would not be reported,” said Richard Hasen, a professor of election law at the University of California, Irvine. It also doesn’t include investigations that could be underway if initiated by prosecutors in the state's 58 counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Hasen said, “I see no evidence that voter fraud is a major problem in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited an exhaustive \u003ca href=\"http://votingrights.news21.com/interactive/election-fraud-database/index.html\">study\u003c/a> that found just 56 cases of election fraud in California between 2000 and 2012, most of it perpetrated by campaign officials, not voters. The view held by Hasen and supported by many \u003ca href=\"http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud-myth\">academic studies\u003c/a> conflicts with claims by Trump, who has been complaining about fraudulent voting for months, without citing evidence of a widespread problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/802972944532209664\">tweeted\u003c/a> that “the millions of people who voted illegally” had cost him the popular vote, and that there was “serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/802972944532209664\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He repeated similar claims \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/at-white-house-trump-tells-congressional-leaders-3-5-million-illegal-ballots-cost-him-the-popular-vote/?utm_term=.4e66c523d7f6\">in a meeting\u003c/a> with congressional leaders in January, and then \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/05/trump-says-pence-to-lead-voter-registration-fraud-probe-leaves-door-open-on-scrapping-iran-deal.html\">announced\u003c/a> in February that he would put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of investigating voter fraud. Pence is forming a \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320666-pence-filling-out-voter-fraud-task-force\">task force\u003c/a> to do the investigation, though a \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/poll-donald-trump-voter-fraud-234458\">recent poll\u003c/a> found that only 1 in 4 voters believes Trump’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The burden is on the president and his team to bring forward proof or evidence,” said Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat. “We’ve been asking them for it since November, and they’ve had nothing to show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no signs yet that the White House investigation has begun. No one from Pence’s task force has contacted the California secretary of state’s office, said Padilla spokesman Sam Mahood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the records request, the secretary of state’s office would not provide copies of the complaints it received last year, saying they are exempt from disclosure. It did provide tallies of the number of complaints and the categories of potential violations of those that are being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican state Sen. Joel Anderson of Alpine, a Trump delegate who is vice chairman of the Senate’s elections committee, said he’s seen signs of fraud while campaigning in his San Diego-area district. He’s encountered houses where a registered voter -- marked as voting in the last several elections -- turned out to have been dead for years, and empty lots carrying addresses where people are registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The burden is on the president and his team to bring forward proof or evidence. We’ve been asking them for it since November and they’ve had nothing to show.'\u003ccite>Secretary of State Alex Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“All you have to do is walk a precinct and you know there is fraud,” said Anderson. “The question is: Is it rampant? Is it rare? We don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when told of the small number of voter fraud complaints tallied by the secretary of state, Anderson called the figures \"spectacular.\" He said if the White House audit similarly finds an insignificant number of problems in California, Padilla deserves a gold star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If those are the numbers and those hold true, that’s a phenomenal job. We should hold up those numbers to 49 other states.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Trump claims that large numbers of people in the country illegally are voting, past prosecutions in California include few cases of voting by noncitizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, an unauthorized immigrant in Escondido \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/previously-deported-criminal-alien-pleads-guilty-voter-fraud-illegal-reentry-and\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to voting illegally in the 2008 presidential election by using the name of a U.S. citizen. In 2008, a man was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/08/local/me-briefs8.S4\">sentenced to jail\u003c/a> in Orange County for registering two underage teenagers and a noncitizen to vote. In a more high-profile case in 1996, Congress opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/13/cq/sanchez.html\">an investigation\u003c/a> after a Republican congressman from Orange County argued that voting by noncitizens had caused him to lose re-election -- but the investigation was eventually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"g0quXZ5JC6PRv3yNDwlkMsgSRBLO0m3A\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, election crimes prosecuted in California more typically involve wrongdoing by political candidates and public officials. In recent years, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article2609511.html\">state senator\u003c/a> from Inglewood, an Escondido \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/sd-no-fragozo-sentencing-20160926-story.html\">school board\u003c/a> member, the former \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/-Local-Politician-Convicted-of-Fraud-78576127.html\">mayor\u003c/a> of Vernon and the \u003ca href=\"http://archive.redding.com/news/mariette-pleads-no-contest-to-voter-fraud-ep-375646137-354770131.html\">manager\u003c/a> of a community services district near Redding were convicted of voter fraud for lying about their address. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Cudahy-Officials-Corruption-Bribery-Ballots-Voting-162259065.html\">City officials\u003c/a> in the Southern California city of Cudahy pleaded guilty to tampering with ballots to favor incumbent city council members and discard votes for challengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Trump supporters \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/01/27/voter-fraud/\">have said\u003c/a> it would be easy for undocumented immigrants to vote in California because of two state laws approved in recent years. 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