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On June 18, 2025, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate and the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics released a landmark report that finds local election administrators consistently lack sustained funding, adequate staffing, and necessary technology at a time of intense public scrutiny and diminished trust in voting results.

The comprehensive anthology report ([link removed]) , “Bolstering Funding and Practices for Resilient Elections: Sustainable Funding and Models of Success at the State and Local Level,” gives election administrators and policymakers the data and research necessary to bolster voting infrastructure at the state and local levels.
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Participants included University of Kansas professor Zach Mohr, Auburn University professor Mitchell Brown, Colorado Department of State deputy elections director Hilary Rudy, Commissioners Ben Hovland and Donald Palmer of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Bipartisan Policy Center elections project director Rachel Orey, and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Fortier.
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Support for this project was provided by the Election Trust Initiative
This event was made possible through funding from Democracy Fund

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