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How hard is it to spend a bucket of free federal money?

About as easy as it is to say "kitten caboodle."

By David Gillette

The Help America Vote Act (better-known as "HAVA'") includes a federal funding appropriation we didn't plan to spend much time on this legislative session. But it's become such an odd product of our political times, it deserves a bit more attention. Here's an illustrated explainer.

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