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 CONCLUSION

HAVA authorizes the use of the grant funds for "[i]mproving the administration of elections for federal office." Congress vested EAC with authority to administer the grant program. According to EAC, there has been an increase in the number of threats made against Federal, state, and local election officials. In light of this information, EAC could reasonably conclude that grantees could use the funds to provide physical security services and social media threat monitoring to election officials.

Edda Emmanuelli Perez

General Counsel Page 7