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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Foundations Award $2.5 Million to Improve Elections The Pew Center on the States’ Making Voting Work Initiative and the JEHT Foundation announced today that they are jointly awarding $2.5 million in grants to fund 16 projects in an effort to find and advance innovative solutions to critical flaws in our elections system and improve accuracy, convenience, efficiency and security for voters. The grants focus on five distinct areas of election administration where major failings have been identified and improvements are being debated and implemented by election officials, but where additional expertise is desired and necessary to shape and evaluate these efforts. These 5 areas are:
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