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Article: Justice Department Meets With Civil Rights Groups to Discuss Plans for Protecting Ballot Access
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 8, 2008
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorney General
Michael B. Mukasey, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil
Rights Division Grace Chung Becker, and other senior officials of
the Department of Justice (DOJ) met today with leaders of dozens of
civil rights groups, as well as national organizations representing
state and local officials, secretaries of state and attorneys
general offices from across the country, to review plans to protect
voting rights in the upcoming federal election.
"The Justice Department must make every effort to help ensure
that the November elections are run as smoothly as ...