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DHS plans costly crackdown on states that don’t cooperate on election security

FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security will withhold billions in preparedness grant funding from states that refuse to adopt new election security measures, including voter citizenship verification, post-election audits and expanded use of paper ballots.The push comes as President Donald Trump and many Republicans slam states that do not want to let the federal government audit their voter rolls, while also criticizing the snail's-pace, widely criticized vote tabulations in states like California.FEMA, a sub-agency of DHS, is making more than $1 billion in taxpayer funding available...