DeSantis official says DOJ fails to send monitors to 3 Florida counties

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The DeSantis administration is trying to block the Department of Fairness of election observers from receiving access to the polls in South Florida speaking in letter stating that federal government involvement would be “counterproductive” and in violation of State Law.

On Monday the Ministry of Justice announced that he would send federal monitors to 64 jurisdictions across the country to monitor how elections are being held. Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties were to accept federal monitors from the Justice Department’s civil rights division.

But Brad McVeigh, the chief counsel for Department of Florida of state, said in a letter issued late Monday night stating that these observers would be barred from the polls under Florida law.

McVeigh said the Florida secretary of states office — which is overseen by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — will instead send their observers to those three districts that are among the districts with the most democratic bias in Florida.

Florida Laws list in people who ‘can enter any voting room or polling station place’, McVeigh wrote. “Department of Justice personnel not included on in list”.

DOJ Sends Election Day Observers to 64 Jurisdictions

Although there is an exception in Florida law to allow law enforcement to enter polling places, McVeigh said Justice Department monitors do not qualify.

“The absence of any evidence regarding need for federal intrusion or any federal law that takes precedence over Florida law, presence of federal law enforcement at the polls would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in elections,” McVeigh wrote.

“Nobody of districts currently under any election-related federal consent decrees.” — McVeigh added. “Nobody of counties were accused of rights violation of language or racial minorities or of the elderly or disabled”.

branch of Justice did not immediately respond to the request. for comment. But the Justice Department said in a news release with monitoring announcement locations that he has overseen local election procedures throughout the country since 1965.

The Republicans led a steady campaign against alleged electoral fraud over in past two years despite scant evidence of fraud in 2020 elections, as well as threats against politicians, their families and electoral workers dispersed throughout the country.

Electoral officials in battlefield states expect delay results and protracted fights after the polls closed on Tuesday evening.

Separate Missouri state officials on Friday denied the Justice Department’s request for routine inspections under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Voting Rights Act at the polling stations. on Election Day. Secretary of State John Ashcroft (right) reaffirmed this position in meeting on Monday.

He told The Washington Post that the presence of the Department of Justice amounted to an attempt to “intimidate the local election commission” and could “intimidate and suppress vote”.

Ashcroft and Cole County Clerk Steve Korsmeyer (right) told federal officials they would not be allowed to watch the polls on Tuesday.

“This is not the Voting Rights Act. It’s the Americans with Disabilities Act. What next? They are going to want to be in the elections because they want to test this insulation in in building was bought in China in 1970s? Give me a break,” Ashcroft said. in telephone interview.

He compared Justice Department officials to the US Attorney’s Office. office from Western District of Missouri “over the knee bandits” and individuals in Arizona who were seen patrolling the ballot drop boxes with firearms.

“I think that we already there have been lawsuits all over the country against people near polling stations,” Ashcroft said. “And they were told that they should stay away from them because they could intimidate voters.” Department of Justice officials last oversaw elections in Missouri in 2016 at the polls in Saint Louis.

FBI special agents acting as elected crime coordinators will also to be on duty in to the bureau56 of the local offices to receive voting-related complaints from public, according to the Department of Justice. Employees in Department of Justice Civil Rights Division will also hotline open all day on Election day answering the phone people who place possible violations of Federal voting rights laws.

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