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Requirements Payment
90.401
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HAVA Section 251 authorizes requirements payments to assist States (including the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories) in meeting the Uniform and Nondiscriminatory Election Technology and Administration Requirements in Title III of the Act (voting systems standards, provisional voting and voting information requirements, computerized statewide voter registration list requirements and requirements for voters who register by mail) and, under certain circumstances, for other activities to improve the administration of Federal elections.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
As of September 30, 2022, 30 states reported spending 100 percent of their HAVA Requirements Payment funds (including interest) and another 17 states reported spending 90% or more of their funds and interest. States reported cumulative expenditures of $2,770,043,030 or 95% of total funds. The states with the highest percentages remaining include states that had replaced a large portion of their voting equipment immediately prior to receiving HAVA funds. Those states expect to replace voting equipment in the near future, and their balance of unexpended funds will decrease significantly.
The purchase of additional tabulator machines, tabulator machine rentals, tabulator machine programming, tabulator trainings, and letter opening machines for processing ballots more quickly. General Election automatic ballot mailing, ballot curing post card printing, and membership dues for ERIC, an organization that provides data to us to help clean up our voter registration rolls and identify individuals that are eligible but not registered to vote. Salaries, office equipment and supplies, and other administrative costs for HAVA-eligible activities that improve the way our elections are administered.
Subaward operating expenses relating to the storage, maintenance, insurance for, and other costs relating to, voting equipment.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
