Bloomberg Law
Nov. 8, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

Fewer U.S. Vote Monitors to Be More Spread Out on Election Day

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By Chris Strohm, Bloomberg News

The Justice Department will deploy 500 personnel to polling stations on Election Day to help protect voters against discrimination and intimidation, down from 2012 as the result of a Supreme Court ruling that gutted part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The monitors, down from about 780 who were sent out in 2012, will be more spread out than four years ago, the department said in a statement Monday. Monitors will be sent to 67 jurisdictions in 28 states this year, compared with 51 jurisdictions in 23 states in 2012.

The department’s goal is “to see ...

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