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I hope that is none of you.

Cory Slifko was a father of two, a husband, and an accomplished veteran of the South St. Paul Police Department. He spent 20 years on the force, eventually working his way up to serve as a sergeant. But Cory also spent 20 years witnessing…

We introduced a new bill to provide significant Federal funding to support election administration and election security.

It is a shame that that is happening.

I think we should all be working together to make it easier to vote.

I remain very concerned about changes that are making it much harder to vote.

It is our responsibility to continue to address this challenge.

We must support the election officials working on the front lines of our democracy.

There is no way in any state it should be ten times as long to wait in a predominantly black precinct as it is in a predominately white precinct.

I continue to believe that we need basic Federal standards so all Americans can vote in the way that works best for them.

I would think cybersecurity, of which we have assisted on the Federal level, but we know that that is needed.

We had disagreements on the Freedom to Vote Act that I strongly believe we should pass, but we agree that there should be some Federal funding for elections.

I have pushed the social media companies to improve their policies for election related disinformation, make sure these policies are enforced.

I am concerned that it creates an impression that Congress will be restoring the funds this year instead of the Department making these activities priorities in their budget.

So you are saying you are at capacity then for what you are going to clean up?