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our future guest today, the chairman of the election assistance commission, benjamin hovland. thank you for being here. please go forward with your opening statement. mr. hovland: thank you, chairman. i'm the head of the eac. i appreciate the opportunity to testify on the impact of the grants. the story of election administration in 2020 cannot be told without acknowledging the tremendous job state and local election officials did to run their elections while facing unprecedented challenges. with a record of nearly 160 million americans voting in the november general election in the middle of a global pandemic, the effort required to conduct this election was herculean, and the officials who managed this task deserve our thanks and praise. while politics in the aftermath of the election have distracted many from how it was run, i can unequivocally say this is the best administered election i have seen in my career, for many reasons. first and foremost, the officials that run elections put their personal health on the line and worked countless hours for their voters and our demo

election assistance commission chair ben benjamin hovland testifies at house appropriation subcommittee hearing. watch live on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. announcer: congress returns for legislative business on february 22. until then, committees will continue work on covid relief legislation based

election assistance commission chair benjamin hovland as the eac approved guidelines to overall votingtandards -- to overhaul voting standards, boosting security. the hearing is expected to start shortly. [no audio]

our future guest today, the chairman of the election assistance commission, benjamin hovland. thank you for being here. please go forward with your opening statement. mr. hovland: thank you, chairman. i'm the head of the eac. i appreciate the opportunity to testify on the impact of the grants. the story of election administration in 2020 cannot be told without acknowledging the tremendous job state and local election officials did to run their elections while facing unprecedented challenges. with a record of nearly 160 million americans voting in the november general election in the middle of a global pandemic, the effort required to conduct this election was herculean, and the officials who managed this task deserve our thanks and praise. while politics in the aftermath of the election have distracted many from how it was run, i can unequivocally say this is the best administered election i have seen in my career, for many reasons. first and foremost, the officials that run elections put their personal health on the line and worked countless hours for their voters and our demo

our future guest today, the chairman of the election assistance commission, benjamin hovland. thank you for being here. please go forward with your opening statement. mr. hovland: thank you, chairman. i'm the head of the eac. i appreciate the opportunity to testify on the impact of the grants. the story of election administration in 2020 cannot be told without acknowledging the tremendous job state and local election officials did to run their elections while facing unprecedented challenges. with a record of nearly 160 million americans voting in the november general election in the middle of a global pandemic, the effort required to conduct this election was herculean, and the officials who managed this task deserve our thanks and praise. while politics in the aftermath of the election have distracted many from how it was run, i can unequivocally say this is the best administered election i have seen in my career, for many reasons. first and foremost, the officials that run elections put their personal health on the line and worked countless hours for their voters and our demo

benjamin hovland testifies before a house committee on his assessment of the 2020 election cycle and the challenges posed by the pandemic. this runs an hour and 15 minutes. we must address a few housekeeping matters. the staff may need participants microphones muted for the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. if we have noticed you have not unmuted yourself, i will ask you if you would like the staff to unmute you. if you indicate approval by nodding, the staff will on you to your microphone. i remind l

administered election of my i've seen in my career tuesday election assistance commission chair benjamin hovlandandemic did not negatively impact the voting because of funding from the cares act help election officials address. >>some of the additional costs associated with running both the largest mail an absentee ballot election most jurisdictions ever experience and making polling places as safe as possible for voters and election workers. >>the threats to our democracy are constant and ever evolving to keep things running smoothly in the future democrats like illinois congressman mike quigley and connecticut congresswoman rosa delauro want to see that extra election funding continue must ensure that a c. >>as a necessary resources to provide vital support the state's new voting public. >>now more than ever we need to provide the necessary resources support that protection of our democracy secure our elections but despite support for more election security republicans say the country can't afford to keep paying the 400 billion it spent last year we got this significant debt over generations a

benjamin hovland testifies before a house committee on his assessment of the 2020 election cycle and the challenges posed by the pandemic. this runs an hour and 15 minutes. we must address a few housekeeping matters. the staff may need participants microphones muted for the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. if we have noticed you have not unmuted yourself, i will ask you if you would like the staff to unmute you. if you indicate approval by nodding, the staff will on you to your microphone. i remind all members and witnesses that the five minute clock still applies. if there is a technology issue, we will retain the balance of the time and move on. you will notice the clock on your screen shows how much time is remaining. at one minute, the clock will turn to yellow. at 30 seconds remaining, i will gently tap the gavel to remind members that their time is almost expired. when your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. we will follow the order set forth in