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Judge Lets DOJ Deploy Poll Monitors, but Bars Armed or Uniformed Agents

Judge Reggie Walton rejected the NAACP's bid to block DOJ election monitors but ordered they be unarmed clerical staff with no arrest power on Election Day.

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What to know

  • Judge Reggie Walton rejected the NAACP's attempt to stop DOJ from deploying roughly 1,000 poll monitors on Election Day, Nov. 3.
  • The order requires monitors to be administrative or clerical staff, not sworn law enforcement, unarmed, out of uniform, and without visible federal insignia.
  • Monitors are barred from making arrests, interfering with voters or election officials, and must follow state and local rules; they may only speak with voters outside polling places after certain conditions.
  • The NAACP had argued that deploying staff from agencies like the ATF, DEA and Bureau of Prisons as monitors could intimidate voters and violate the Voting Rights Act.

“The Court is therefore unpersuaded by the plaintiffs' assertion that a person who is simply 'project[ing a] command[ing] presence, scan[ning] crowds, and more' – without any outward indications of law enforcement authority – would generate objectively reasonable fear in a voter.”

Judge Reggie Walton, U.S. District Judge · Fox News ↗ · Nov 1

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Judge Lets DOJ Deploy Poll Monitors, but Bars Armed or Uniformed Agents
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    Judge Walton denies NAACP bid, orders limits on DOJ poll monitors

    U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton denied the NAACP's emergency request to block the DOJ's roughly 1,000-monitor Election Day program, but ordered that monitors be administrative or clerical personnel only, unarmed, out of uniform, without federal insignia, and barred from making arrests or interfering with voters.

    “The Court will order that the defendants comply with their counsel's concession that they will take action to ensure that the monitors participating in the DOJ's Poll Monitoring Program are indeed administrative or clerical personnel and not law enforcement officials...”
    — Judge Reggie Walton
    1. 3 outlets Judge Rejects Bid to Limit Whom DOJ Can Send as Poll Monitors

      first by Bloomberg Politics, 5d ago · also Bloomberg, Fox News

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    • democracynow.org

      A federal judge ruled Monday the DOJ can deploy election monitors to polling sites across the U.S. — as long as they are not law enforcement officers with the power to make arrests. We speak with NAACP General Counsel Kristen Clarke.

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