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DHS plans costly crackdown on states that don’t cooperate on election security
Thursday, July 9, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security announced it will withhold over $1 billion in homeland security grants from states that do not implement citizenship verification, manual audits, and paper ballots in election procedures. The action applies to states declining to adopt these specific election security measures. DHS tied the grant conditions to compliance with the agency's election security requirements.
