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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 07:53:47 JST Nonilex

   #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/

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 07:54:15 JST mark

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     @Nonilex this is why I no longer participate as an observer. All that rhetoric becomes real

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 07:54:17 JST Nonilex

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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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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 07:54:17 JST Nonilex

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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