GOPers crack down on the private election grants that helped avoid a pandemic fiasco

Already this year, Georgia and Arizona have made proposed limits on private election funding law, and lawmakers have put forward similar measures in at least 11 other states …. “I have no doubt that the concern stems from what happened in the 2020 election,” said Rick Hasen, a UC-Irvine [Chancellor’s} professor of law who runs the election law blog and has written several books about election administration. “Anything that helped that election run smoothly and effectively and cleanly is now the target for attack.”