Justice Dept., campaigns, dispatch poll observers

The Justice Department announced today it is deploying more than 780 federal officials to 51 jurisdictions in 23 states on Election Day to watch for voting rights violations.

State and local governments are responsible for administering elections, but the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is charged with enforcing federal voting rights laws. The department has dispatched election observers across the country since the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. On Election Day on Tuesday, they'll watch to make sure voters aren't discriminated against, to ensure jurisdictions comply with minority language rules and to make sure disabled voters receive proper assistance, among other things.

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The federal government won't be alone in monitoring the elections. Both presidential campaigns plan on deploying thousands of lawyers to polling places on Tuesday, the New York Times reports, to report back to campaign headquarters on voting conditions. More senior campaign officials will decide whether any circumstances merit court action.

But while the Justice Department is monitoring several states, the campaigns are more closely focused on battlegrounds. Democrats, for instance, will have 2,500 lawyers stationed across Ohio, according to the Times, including 600 in Cuyahoga County alone. The campaigns started lawyering up this heavily after the contested 2000 presidential election. As in Florida in 2000, the first issue likely to go to court in Ohio this year is a request to keep polls open late, the Times reports.

[thprop]

Does anyone think Mexico has a better system for voting than USA?

[papa_ray]

While I don't trust any "group" think, I can say this after talking to State and Local people that are involved with this election in Texas.

IN TEXAS!!

There will be NO ONE within ONE HUNDRED FEET of the voting booths. There will be NO ONE allowed to supervise, observe or even be near where the votes are counted and recorded. This included any FEDERAL Officials or these so called "International Observers".

Voting is determined, done and observed by STATE officials.

While this is a good thing in TEXAS it is not in many Democrat controlled States. YOU can be SURE that Voter FRAUD will be carried out in those States. It is up to those honest Americans to prosecute those who cheat.

Just remember that it is not how you vote, but who COUNTS the votes.

We will have multiple law suits and complaints this election year.

God Save Our Republic.

Papa Ray
West Texas

[johnlockesghost]

Next thing you know, they'll be arming poll watchers. The nation continues to deteriorate.

[joedamico34]

This is what the Republicans caused,costing taxpayers more money, such a sad bunch. They commit the fraud and yet tell you its the democrats and yet in the NEWS its always the GOP that is cought...

Justice Department announced today it is deploying more than 780 federal officials to 51 jurisdictions in 23 states on Election Day to watch for voting rights violations.

[loveschools]

yeah, may as well have the black panther party, as the holder justice department.

[reddog449]

Trust Holder and DOJ to do the right thing?? Holder called the New Black Panthers " His People" and didn't prosecute them for voter intimidation in the last election. Could be worse, I guess, he could have been running Operation "Fast and Furious" guns to them.

[deckbose]

Can you offer one legitimate link, please, that shows Eric Holder called the NBPP "my people"? I'm calling you out on your rightwing racist BS. It never happened. One site claims it happened, another quotes the first site, and before you know it, dupes like you are taken in. So sad.

[alphabet77-2009]

The Romney campaign is training its poll watchers to mislead voters by giving the poll watchers erroneus information:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/30/1106961/romney-wisconsin-poll-watchers/

[ammo17]

i hope you don`t believe anything that comes out of this injustice department.

[Bucky4U]

Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment

Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme, Solamere

Launched in 2008 by Romney's son Tagg and a few others, including Mitt
Romney's chief fundraiser Spencer Zwick, Solamere Capital is a "fund of
funds," meaning that it primarily invests in other investment companies,
like private equity groups.

Zwick, is the son of LDS (Mormon) Church general authority W. Craig Zwick, would
take on the role of national finance director, at age 28, and raise
millions of dollars for Romney's first presidential bid.