Election offices say they need more funding
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
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USA TODAY Congress, Campaigns and Democracy Reporter Sudiksha Kochi talks about the push for more funding at election offices nationwide.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wunderry Plus in the Wundery app. Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, April 8th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.5 | excerpt. Today a look at the funding issues at election offices nationwide, plus the latest |
| 0:28.4 | from Gaza ceasefire talks and college basketball crowns its champions. |
| 0:34.0 | Election offices say they need more funding, |
| 0:37.0 | and advocates are calling on Congress to help. |
| 0:39.0 | I spoke with USA Today, Congress, campaigns and Democracy Reporter, |
| 0:42.9 | Siddi Kocchi for more. |
| 0:45.0 | Siddiksha, thanks for making the time. |
| 0:46.7 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:48.4 | So can you just start by telling us |
| 0:49.7 | about this Massachusetts town clerk and her story. |
| 0:53.0 | So Grace, the town clerk in Massachusetts, |
| 0:56.6 | spent October 17, 2020, which |
| 0:59.7 | was the first day of early voting in her state in the 2020 election in the emergency room. |
| 1:05.8 | But before heading to the hospital she checked to make sure her precinct was set up |
| 1:11.1 | since she was the only town clerk that her area had and after the |
| 1:16.0 | emergency room visit she emptied out the ballot drop boxes for the night. |
| 1:20.0 | Grace's story is just one example of the many hardships that election officials have to face |
| 1:27.2 | due to situations such as staffing shortages and other problems that happened due to lack of funding. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, I want to hear more about that sediction. |
| 1:37.4 | How exactly does her story echo really similar ones at election offices around |
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