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Posted on 11/08/2022 9:13:05 AM PST by rktman
It's officially Election Day and the Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, has dispatched a number of election monitors to polling locations across the country.
"The Justice Department announced today its plans to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 64 jurisdictions in 24 states for the Nov. 8, 2022 general election. Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Division has regularly monitored elections in the field in jurisdictions around the country to protect the rights of voters. The Civil Rights Division will also take complaints from the public nationwide regarding possible violations of the federal voting rights laws through its call center. The Civil Rights Division enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot," DOJ released in a statement Monday. "For the general election, the Civil Rights Division will monitor for compliance with the federal voting rights laws on Election Day and/or in early voting in 64 jurisdictions."
But the Florida Department of State is barring DOJ election monitors from polling places in the Sunshine State.
"Department of Justice monitors are not permitted under Florida law. Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statutes lists the people who 'may enter any polling room or polling place.' Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list. Even if they could qualify under 'law enforcement'...absent some evidence concerning the need for federal intrusion, or some federal stature that preempts Florida law, the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the elections," Florida Department of State General Counsel Brad McVay wrote in a letter to DOJ Elections Coordinator John Russ.
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thank you Ron.
I tend to think the DoJ has the right to place monitors as the Congress has Amendment XV enforcement rights and ultimate authority over elections to Congress.
We in Florida run our elections right nowadays. The DoJ needs to see a functioning system work so it knows that election laggards should not be tolerated as they create election distrust and “election deniers”.
The Boss is in charge here.
Good. Now slap a lawsuit on der kleine führer, Merry Garland’s wimpy ass.
I just voted in Central Florida. Nobody was wearing a mask except for one black poll worker. There were DeSantis signs in many front yards. Not a single Crist sign was seen except at the 150 ft perimeter at the polling location.
Bravo, Florida!
Excellent!
Black Panthers with their billy clubs are less a threat to honest voting than DOJ jackboots on the scene.
The federal constitution leaves the control of elections in the states’ powers. Not the federales.
I just voted in Broward County. DeSantis did not need to spend a dime in campaigning in my opinion. He wins in a landslide.
Hmmmm. Didn’t the SCOTUS recently also send a certain “birth control” issue back to the states where it should have been all along?
Good.
DeSantis needs to have anyone of them that enters a polling place arrested on charges of voter intimidation.
LOVE Desantis! He is the future of conservatism.
Trump was the crude but necessary battering ram to knock down the door.
We all know that the current Whitehouse occupier is using his gestapo NOT to “observe” how Florida does it right and use our example as a good model but to attempt to prove that the Florida model of how an election should be done is flawed in every way possible and is, in fact a “racis” catastrophe worthy of being dismantled in court. The let’s go brandon administration is up to no good. Count on it.
The doj and fbi are the enemy and the leaders of the state of Florida know it.
The feds have a vested interest in the outcome.
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