HAVA Election Security Grants — CFDA 90.404

Near one award per jurisdiction under $1.01B

Assistance listing 90.404 is titled HAVA ELECTION SECURITY GRANTS in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $1,014,740,092.88. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $1.01B as cash already spent on election systems mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

58 awards sit under that dollar book—almost the same order as 55 recipients and 55 states. Dividing $1,014,740,092.88 by 58 produces a mean near $17.50 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical county equipment invoice and not a cost per polling place. HAVA security dollars often sit on a small number of statewide assistance actions, which is why 58 records can carry $1.01B.

55 recipients lined up with 55 states

CFDA 90.404 lists 55 recipients and 55 states against 58 awards. Recipient count is not unique voters or unique counties. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. The 55/55/58 pattern is a formula-like file: one primary grantee per coded jurisdiction plus a few extra award rows. The 55-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every precinct.

Because 58 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large actions can move $1,014,740,092.88 without a matching jump in the 55-recipient count. Extra modifications can lift award volume while dollars barely move. The HAVA hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus election-security outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $1,014,740,092.88 figure for CFDA 90.404 can include commitments that will disburse later. A Help America Vote Act expenditure report, a voting-system inventory, and a Treasury outlay series are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 90.404 program page. Do not stretch 58 awards or 55 recipients to cover every federal dollar that touches election administration.

What the 90.404 tables omit

The HAVA Election Security Grants hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a voting-machine serial list, not a cyber-incident log, and not a precinct turnout file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,014,740,092.88. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 58 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 55 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while systems sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 90.404

A complete citation is $1,014,740,092.88 in obligations for CFDA 90.404, covering 58 awards, 55 recipients, and 55 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is how tightly awards track jurisdictions, lead with 58 awards, 55 recipients, and 55 states, then the $1.01B total.

Start with the HAVA Election Security Grants program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is electioneering or voting advice.

A worked reading of the 90.404 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $1,014,740,092.88, 58 awards, 55 recipients, and 55 states under CFDA 90.404. The mean near $17.50 million is a quotient from a small award count, not a typical county purchase. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large state actions, dollars can jump while 55 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 58 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $1.01B.

Nothing in the extract splits equipment from cybersecurity, or HAVA title accounts from one another. Those cuts live outside this packet. Treat CFDA 90.404 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 58 awards next to the dollars so the low record count is visible.

Questions

How much is obligated under HAVA Election Security Grants?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $1,014,740,092.88 in obligations for CFDA 90.404, HAVA Election Security Grants. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of voting systems. The same extract lists 58 awards, 55 recipients, and 55 states.

Why does CFDA 90.404 have only 58 awards?

The indexed award count is 58 against 55 recipients and 55 states. HAVA security dollars often sit on a small number of statewide assistance actions, which is why $1,014,740,092.88 can coexist with a low record count. The 58 figure is a file statistic, not a count of counties or precincts. Recipient count is not unique voters.

Does the $1.01B total include money already spent on election systems?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $1,014,740,092.88 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 58-award count is a record tally, not a count of equipment purchases. Cite CFDA 90.404 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 90.404?

The extract codes 55 states for HAVA Election Security Grants, matching 55 recipients. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every polling place. Those rows still sit under the $1,014,740,092.88 obligation total and the 58-award count.