U.S. Justice Department to monitor elections in Farmer’s Branch and Denton ISD elections

by PegNews wire

FARMERS BRANCH — The Justice Department today announced that on May 12, 2007, it will monitor local elections in the Denton Independent School District, Fort Bend County, Farmers Branch, and Killeen, Texas, to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.

Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send federal observers to areas that are specially covered in the Act itself or by a federal court order. Federal observers will be assigned to monitor polling place activities in Fort Bend County and Farmers Branch based on the special coverage provisions.

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Better make sure that's a ballot machine and not a shredder, amigo

The observers will watch and record activities during voting hours at polling locations in these jurisdictions. Civil Rights Division attorneys will coordinate the federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.

In addition, Justice Department personnel will monitor polling place activities in the Denton Independent School District and in Killeen. A Civil Rights Division attorney in each location will coordinate the federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.

Each of the monitored jurisdictions has an obligation to provide all election information, ballots and voting assistance information in Spanish as well as in English pursuant to Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act. The monitors will gather information concerning compliance.

To file complaints about discriminatory voting practices, including acts of harassment or intimidation, voters may call the Voting Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division at 1-800-253-3931.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

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Sanders Kaufman, says:

It's a shame that Farmer's Branch has fallen so far, so fast, that federal monitors have to be called in to ensure they don't screw up their elections.

Personally, I don't think their problems are coming from their local population of property owners.

I think the ones who are actually organizing the trouble are just migrant White Supremacists and White Separatists who have made FB their latest away-from-home location to stir up trouble.