Justice Department to monitor voting in San Juan County
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The 2022 election is playing out against the backdrop of persistent falsehoods made by former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies about losing the 2020 vote, a relentless campaign that will have implications as people cast their ballots.The 64 jurisdictions where federal monitors — typically lawyers with the department’s civil rights division and U.S.
The monitors are being sent to “protect the rights of voters,” as they have for decades, the Justice Department said Monday.The monitors are lawyers who work for the U.S. government. They are not law enforcement officers or federal agents. They generally include lawyers from the Justice Department’s civil rights division and U.S. attorney’s offices across the nation.
Some of the locations where they have been sent include areas where there were concerns in 2020, as well as locations where issues have already been raised this year.The Justice Department has warned about the potential for violations of the Voting Rights Act after people, sometimes armed or wearing ballistic vests, were monitoring ballot boxes in Maricopa County. There was a lawsuit over the activity and the department filed a statement of interest in the case.
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