Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Robert Brady (D-PA) have sent a letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee asking that $400 million remaining from the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) be allocated to help states prevent future foreign election interference:
“We know that Russia launched an unprecedented assault on our elections in 2016, targeting 21 states’ voting systems, and we believe this money is necessary to protect our elections from future attack,”
The two men say they have spent five months studying current vulnerabilities as co-chairs of an Election Security Task Force and have found states have an "urgent need" for federal funding to help secure voting systems nationwide.
The letter continues:
Thompson and Brady write that replacing paperless machines with paper ballot voting systems is the single most urgent need. They conclude:
Dems call for states to get $400M election security upgrades (The Hill)