Election Assistance Commission federal obligations

79 awards under a $1.02 billion EAC book

The precise total is $1,015,740,092.88. Divided by 79 awards, the implied mean is about $12.9 million per award, among the highest means in this packet range. Help America Vote Act-style grants to states can put large dollars on few records. This packet does not list the 79 recipients, so state-by-state grant amounts are not restated here beyond the geography table.

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year. Multi-year HAVA balances can remain open, so $1,015,740,092.88 is not a single election cycle’s cash. USAspending.gov is the source.

That mix is the research takeaway from the two packet facts together. 79 awards at a mean near $12.9 million describe a handful of large assistance actions, the thinnest count in this packet slice. A later extract can change both the dollar total and the award count as multi-year HAVA balances remain open inside FY 2026.

CGAC 525 as the awarding-agency identifier

SpendingVault keys the EAC to /agencies/525/. CGAC 525 is the USAspending awarding-agency code in this extract. The $1,015,740,092.88 total and 79 award count belong to that identifier. The award count is not a count of polling places, registered voters, or certified systems.

What the EAC obligation file omits

Voluntary voting-system guidelines, clearinghouse reports, and state election-administration statistics are separate publications. This hub cites $1,015,740,092.88 in obligations through FY 2026 on 79 awards. Turnout figures and equipment inventories are not in the packet. Outlays are omitted.

Researchers sometimes treat an agency obligation total as cash already paid. For Election Assistance Commission, that reading is wrong. Turnout, polling-place counts, certified voting-system inventories, or unused HAVA balance estimates belong in other publications. The USAspending figure on this hub remains an obligation sum through FY 2026. Multi-year HAVA balances remain open inside FY 2026.

State geography when there are 79 rows

With only 79 awards, each state cell can be a single grant or empty. The geography view is a coding table for the $1,015,740,092.88 book through FY 2026, not a ranking of election performance. A missing state cell means no place-of-performance row in this extract, not that the state held no elections.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete economic-impact model. On this agency, each state cell may be a single grant or empty; a missing cell is not evidence that a state held no elections. Read the state table after the agency hub, not instead of it. Read CGAC 525 as a concentrated assistance file; 79 rows can each move the mean.

EAC on the all-agencies list

Compare $1,015,740,092.88 and 79 awards only with other obligation totals from this extract. The distinctive fact is concentration: high dollars, very few records. The hub does not advise election officials.

The all-agencies list is useful only inside this extract’s obligation definition and FY 2026 cap. 79 awards at a mean near $12.9 million describe a handful of large assistance actions, the thinnest count in this packet slice. Ranking on dollars alone hides that mix. Read CGAC 525 as a concentrated assistance file; 79 rows can each move the mean.

What 79 awards imply for the EAC hub

The packet facts are $1,015,740,092.88, 79 awards, CGAC 525, and FY 2026. Large state assistance actions can each carry a substantial share of the book. A thin row count is a size-mix fact, not a finding about unused balances.

Voluntary voting-system guidelines and clearinghouse reports are other EAC products. This page stays on the USAspending obligation sum. The state table may have empty cells; that is a coding result on 79 records, not an election-quality score. CGAC 525 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/525/. The award population is 79 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays. CGAC 525 is the awarding-agency identifier on every row in this rollup, and the overlay path stays /agencies/525/. The award population is 79 records. Those rows still sum to the same obligation total through fiscal year 2026. Readers who need place-of-performance should open the state table from that hub; readers who need peer context should open the all-agencies list. Neither view converts obligations into outlays.

Questions

How much has the EAC obligated on USAspending through FY 2026?

Election Assistance Commission records (CGAC 525) sum to $1,015,740,092.88 across 79 awards in this extract. That figure is an obligation total from USAspending.gov through fiscal year 2026, not a turnout statistic and not a voting-system inventory.

Why does the EAC have only 79 awards?

The 79 count is the number of award records tagged to CGAC 525. Large state assistance actions can each carry a substantial share of the $1,015,740,092.88 book. A thin row count is a size-mix fact, not a finding about unused HAVA balances.

What is CGAC 525?

CGAC 525 is the USAspending awarding-agency code for the Election Assistance Commission in this extract. SpendingVault’s hub is /agencies/525/. The $1,015,740,092.88 obligation total and 79 award count belong to that code through FY 2026.

Where can I see EAC spending by state?

The state table from the CGAC 525 agency page uses place-of-performance fields on the same obligation extract. Geography rows still sit under $1,015,740,092.88 and 79 awards through FY 2026; some states may have no row.