It appears that a proposal to ban counties from getting nonprofit grant funding for administering our elections has been added to the budget. The proposal also gives counties new and burdensome reporting responsibilities.

Elections are a state function and counties here, like in other states, should receive state-provided funds to ensure that elections are run effectively and fairly. They wouldn’t need nonprofit funding if our state government were doing its job.

And finally, this proposal is one more effort on the part of Republican state legislators to cast doubt on the integrity of the 2020 election. It’s time for this nonsense to stop.

Tell legislators to take this out of the budget.