NonilexOct 30, 2024
#GOP *leaders* in some states move to block official #DOJ #election monitors

Federal authorities have deployed monitors for decades. But #Republicans have begun denying them entry to polling sites.

The DOJ’s ability to monitor local jurisdictions for #VotingRights irregularities on Election Day, already curtailed by #SCOTUS, is facing a new hurdle: opposition from #Republicans who are seeking to block federal authorities from polling sites.

#law #illiberalism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/30/election-monitors-justice-department-republican-states/
GOP leaders in some states move to block Justice Dept. election monitors

The Justice Department has sent out hundreds of election monitors for decades. But GOP leaders in some states have begun to deny them entry to polling sites.

The Washington Post
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The #US govt has regularly dispatched hundreds of monitors to voting locations…, aiming to protect ballot access, discourage improper #partisan #influence & act as a moderating force on political campaigns.

While the #DOJ has the #legal right to request access to polling sites, inflamed partisanship & ideological #extremism has contributed to greater resistance to such activities in some #GOP-controlled states….

#law #ElectionLaw #Election2024 #Republican #illiberalism #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
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Red states have attempted to #politicize the process & cast #nonpartisan federal monitors as from the #Biden admin who cannot be trusted.

#Republican *leaders* in #Missouri & #Florida, which flatly banned federal monitors in the 2022 midterm elections, said in recent interviews that their positions have not changed & that #DOJ ofcls likely would be rebuffed again if they request access to voting locations for Tues’s presidential #election.

#law #illiberalism #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

Oct 30, 2024 at 10:50pmWeb
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@Nonilex this is why I no longer participate as an observer. All that rhetoric becomes real