Panel promises states $2.3 billion to improve election process

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

WASHINGTON -- States can expect by mid-May to get a long-awaited $2.3 billion in federal help to buy new voting-booth equipment and make other election improvements, the head of an electoral reform commission promised Monday.

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