Posted on 10/28/2004 1:28:53 PM PDT by truthandlife
More than 1,000 federal poll watches will be sent to monitor elections in 25 states to assure compliance with voting laws and prevent discrimination or disenfranchisement, the Justice Department (search) announced Thursday.
The 1,090 federal observers and monitors will be on duty in at least 86 locations for Tuesday's election. The number is more than triple the 317 dispatched for the 2000 presidential election, which ended after a 36-day court battle over Florida's votes.
Personnel from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division (search) will be on hand in eight Florida counties, including Broward, Palm Beach and Dade counties where much of the 2000 election controversy took place.
They are also being sent to other battleground states in the contest between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry (search), including Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
Monitors and observers are sent to states and counties covered by the 1965 Voting Rights Act (search), which ended racial barriers to voting, and to other places where there have been problems or where there is an ongoing investigation into voting rights violations.
Their job is to enforce the Voting Rights Act and check for other violations of federal election law, such as ballot tampering and destruction of voter registration materials.
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I hope they have video cameras photographing everyone who enters every precinct in Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, PA, and Florida. THAT might keep the fraud down to a minimum (can't enter multiple times to vote if you're on tape, eh?).
They should send US Marshall's and Troops !! To each polling place to collect the votes to be counted and monitor the counting!!!
so and so [insert name of community activist] said, "cop cars at the poles will keep black people away."
Honest to goodness, heard it with my own two ears.
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