It is unclear who the president thinks needs to authorize Michigan's decision. Republicans in Congress for years have resisted efforts to inject federal oversight into state and local elections.
Election officials in both parties from states across the country have scrambled to hold elections in the middle of a pandemic. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, recently touted the fact that 1 million people had requested absentee ballots ahead of his state's early June primary, after he made a similar decision to send ballot request forms to voters.
"For a state that previously had only around 40,000 mail ballots voted in past general primary elections, the surge to one million ballots sent out is a monumental accomplishment on its own,” Raffensperger said in a statement earlier this month. It is unclear what federal funding the president would seek to block, or if he even has the authority to do so. Both Michigan and Nevada have requested emergency funding from the Election Assistance CommissionThe CARES Act, coronavirus relief legislation passed by Congress in March, included $400 million in funding for election security, but House Democrats are seeking drastically more funding for election officials.
In the HEROES Act, a bill passed out of the House last week on a largely party-line vote, Democrats sought an additional $3.6 billion in election security funding. The legislation also includes“We as Republicans have a distinct, different philosophy on what the federal government’s role in elections should be. We believe that the states and localities are the best ones to get their voters to the polls and recognize what’s going to give everybody an opportunity to cast a vote,” Rep.
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