Article: Justice Department to Monitor Election in Kane County, Illinois.

M2 PRESSWIRE-7 April 2009-US Department of Justice: Justice Department to Monitor Election in Kane County, Illinois(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on April 7, 2009, it will monitor the election in Kane County, Ill., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended.

Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to areas that are specially covered in the act or by a federal court order. Federal observers will be assigned to monitor polling place activities in Kane ...

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