---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21002"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21002"
heading: "Allocation of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21002"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter II — Commission"
  - "Part D — Election Assistance"
  - "Subpart 1 — requirements payments"
---

# §21002. Allocation of funds

- (a) **In general—** Subject to [subsection (c)](#c), the amount of a requirements payment made to a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) for a year shall be equal to the product of—
  - (1) the total amount appropriated for requirements payments for the year pursuant to the authorization under [section 21007 of this title](/usc/52/21007.md); and
  - (2) the [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) allocation percentage for the [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) (as determined under [subsection (b)](#b)).
- (b) **State allocation percentage defined—** The “[State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) allocation percentage” for a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) is the amount (expressed as a percentage) equal to the quotient of—
  - (1) the voting age population of the [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) (as reported in the most recent decennial census); and
  - (2) the total voting age population of all [States](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) (as reported in the most recent decennial census).
- (c) **Minimum amount of payment—** The amount of a requirements payment made to a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) for a year may not be less than—
  - (1) in the case of any of the several [States](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) or the District of Columbia, one-half of 1 percent of the total amount appropriated for requirements payments for the year under [section 21007 of this title](/usc/52/21007.md); or
  - (2) in the case of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, or the United States Virgin Islands, one-tenth of 1 percent of such total amount.
- (d) **Pro rata reductions—** The Administrator[^1] shall make such pro rata reductions to the allocations determined under [subsection (a)](#a) as are necessary to comply with the requirements of [subsection (c)](#c).
- (e) **Continuing availability of funds after appropriation—** A requirements payment made to a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) under this subpart shall be available to the [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) without fiscal year limitation.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “Commission”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 252, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1693.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15402 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.