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Article: Justice Department to Monitor Elections in Mississippi.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- May 19, 2009
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The Justice Department announced that on May 5, 2009, it will monitor municipal elections in the towns of Cleveland, Como, Meridian and Sardis, Miss., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (see also U.S. Department of Justice).
Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the U.S. 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 for the election in the town of Cleveland based on the special coverage provisions. The observers will watch and record activities during ...