DOJ sending monitors to 18 states on Election Day to enforce voting rights laws
(Worthy News) – The Justice Department announced that it is sending officials from the Civil Rights Division to 44 jurisdictions across 18 states to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws on Election Day in the matchup between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
“Federal law entrusts the Civil Rights Division with protecting the right to vote for all Americans,” Eric Dreiband, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said Monday. “Our federal laws protect the right of all American citizens to vote without suffering discrimination, intimidation, and harassment. The work of the Civil Rights Division around each federal general election is a continuation of its historical mission to ensure that all of our citizens can freely exercise this most fundamental American right.”
The Justice Department said that it “historically has monitored in jurisdictions in the field on election day, and is again doing so this year” and that the DOJ “will also take complaints from the public nationwide regarding possible violations of the federal voting rights laws through its call center.” Its press release added that the Civil Rights Division “enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot” and that “since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the division has regularly monitored in a variety of elections around the country throughout every year to protect the rights of all voters, and not just in federal general elections.” [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]