Election Integrity Grant Informational Sheet The Election Integrity Grant (EIG) program funds pass through the Department of The current grant is $1,036,168.05 and the contract is from July 1, 2024 through June Community and Economic Development. 30, 2025. Grant funds will be used for one or more of the following activities: 1. Payment of staff needed to pre-canvass and canvass mail-in ballots and 2. Physical security and transparency costs for centralized pre-canvassing and 4. List maintenance activities under 25 Pa.C.S. Section 1901(B)(1) and (3) (relating absentee ballots. canvassing. 3. Post-election procedures required under the Act. tore removal of electors). 5. Printing of ballots. 6. Training costs for district election officials. 7. Payment of staff at polling places on election day. 8: Secure preparation, transportation, storage and management of voting apparatuses, tabulation equipment and required polling place materials. 9. Costs of county board of election duties related to processing of voter registration applications. Requirements a. The Grantee shall begin pre-canvassing at 7:00 AM on election day and shall continue without interruption until each mail-in ballot and absentee ballot received by 7:00. AM on election day is pre- b. The Grantee shall begin canvassing mail-in ballots and absentee ballots at 8:00 PM on election day and shall continue without No later than 12:01 AM on the day following the election, the Grantee shall cause the Grantee's Board of Elections to announce and post on its publicly accessible internet website an unofficial number of absentee ballots and mail-in ballots received for the election. d. The Grantee shall certify to the Grantor that the Grantee has completed a program under 25 PA.C.S. S 1901(b)(1) (related to removal of electors) and mailed notices required under 251 PA.C.S. $1901 (b)(3) (related to removal of electors) within the prior 12 e. The outcome. of any post-election audit required under the Pennsylvania Election Code shall be submitted with the certification to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of the results of the primary or general election under section 302(k) ofthe Pennsylvania Election Code and shall be posted on the Department of State's publicly accessible internet canvassed. interruption until each ballot has been canvassed. months. website. Grant Usage Report No later than 90 days after the date ofe each General, Municipal and Primary Election, the Grantee shall submit a report, on a form prescribed by the Pennsylvania Department of State, to the entities listed below, indicating how the Grantee used the grant funds received under this Contract: The Grantor, Senate, The Chairperson of the State Government Committee oft the The Minority chairperson oft the State Government The Chairperson oft the State Government Committee oft the The Minority Chairperson oft the State Government Committee ofthe House of Representatives Committee oft the Senate, House of Representatives, and