And the winners are: Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. For more on this much-needed project to improve the collection of election administration data, see this description from the EAC, as well as this post describing the proposal as it was going through Congress.
In what’s surely a coincidence, four of the five states receiving grants are ones that my Moritz colleagues and I profiled in our report last year: From Registration to Recounts: The Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern States. Does the EAC think there’s a special need for better information from the Midwest?