GOP rips ‘missing’ elex $$

The federal Election Assistance Commission has still not accounted for $74 million worth of election aid given to states in 2020 amid the pandemic, and congressional Republicans suspect widespread abuse.

“The EAC is supposed to be a watchdog,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox News. “But it turns out it has been a bad actor, spending large sums of money with little transparency.”

The EAC disbursed $400 million to states under the CARES Act, the $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill passed in March 2020, but has explained only $326 million of that spending, a Government Accountability Office audit found.

The money was meant for efforts to make voting in the election safer, but Comer, ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, and other Republicans have charged that some of it was used for partisan purposes. Mary Kay Linge