Florida failed to spend $10 million for election security, COVID-19 protection at polls
TALLAHASSEE – With days to go, Florida has failed to spend more than $10 million designated for election security, COVID-19 protection at the polls and a surge in mailed ballots.
A large piece of that pie is $3.5 million that Secretary of State Laurel Lee requested from the Legislature earlier this year for the state’s 67 county supervisors of elections to shore up their systems.
The counties didn't ask for that money. And it remains unspent, sitting in a state account as "unbudgeted reserve."
Another chunk of pie left on the plate is $6 million in CARES Act funds that 19 counties decided not to take advantage of, which could be used to make polling places safer for voters and hire extra people to count mail-in ballots.
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