As voters in Florida are making their voices heard in the primary election on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it’s monitoring polling sites.
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According to the DOJ, Miami-Dade polling sites will be monitored by about four Civil Rights Division attorneys.
The DOJ said it previously did this in Florida during the 2022 midterms and regularly deploys staff to monitor if states are complying with federal civil rights laws.
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Wyoming was another state that the DOJ said is being monitored.
So far, 75 monitors were deployed across five and over 200 polling places during the primary season.
In 2022, the DOJ sent monitors to nine states.
“Election monitoring is an ongoing priority for this office,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a statement. “Nondiscriminatory monitoring ensures all elections remain free, fair, and accessible to all.”
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NBC6 has reached out to the Miami-Dade Elections Department for comment.