I’ll tell you where the status is of that money right now. So, let me just, in March 22 is when the President signed the bill authorizing the appropriation, on April 17 we issued awards for that money to every state election office. Those awards, called the NGA, Notice of Grant Awards, had a couple of conditions on it. They were allowed to ask for their money right away in a letter, the letter had to tell us what their process was going to be, putting together a budget and narrative on how they proposed to spend this money. That budget and narrative is due to the EAC in July, July 16th. So states are busy sending their letters to us right now since they've actually put together the plans already, and mostly they're telling us what their process is going to be for figuring out how to spend that money. And I think that those processes are different in all 55 states and territories that received a grant from us. And that's where you all can plug in. Our website has these letters posted. And from there you can get a sense of what the states are thinking about what to do with the money, but also more importantly who they're going to talk to and what steps they're going to take to make sure they have good input on the formation of their budget. And narrative for what they want to do with the funds. So that deadline is July 16th, it's a big deadline. But it's also important to remember that it’s just the first deadline. They have five years to spend this money, much of this money is going to be sub-granted down to the county and local level. So you have the chance to interact at that level with officials to figure out the best use of that money for purposes that you think are important. And the plans can be changed. This is flexible money and the EAC is being incredibly flexible in how we administer it. They can give us the budget categories now, but in three months or six months or in a year after this election in
I’ll tell you where the status is of that money right now. So, let me just, in March 22 is when the President signed the bill authorizing the appropriation, on April 17 we issued awards for that money to every state election office. Those awards, called the NGA, Notice of Grant Awards, had a couple of conditions on it. They were allowed to ask for their money right away in a letter, the letter had to tell us what their process was going to be, putting together a budget and narrative on how they proposed to spend this money. That budget and narrative is due to the EAC in July, July 16th. So states are busy sending their letters to us right now since they've actually put together the plans already, and mostly they're telling us what their process is going to be for figuring out how to spend that money. And I think that those processes are different in all 55 states and territories that received a grant from us. And that's where you all can plug in. Our website has these letters posted. And from there you can get a sense of what the states are thinking about what to do with the money, but also more importantly who they're going to talk to and what steps they're going to take to make sure they have good input on the formation of their budget. And narrative for what they want to do with the funds. So that deadline is July 16th, it's a big deadline. But it's also important to remember that it’s just the first deadline. They have five years to spend this money, much of this money is going to be sub-granted down to the county and local level. So you have the chance to interact at that level with officials to figure out the best use of that money for purposes that you think are important. And the plans can be changed. This is flexible money and the EAC is being incredibly flexible in how we administer it. They can give us the budget categories now, but in three months or six months or in a year after this election in
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