by Misty Severi
The Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday announced that it would be monitoring Arizona’s July 30 primary to ensure that the state was in “compliance with federal voting rights laws” in Maricopa County.
The state’s largest county of Maricopa, which includes Phoenix, has been at the forefront of election security issues after the 2020 presidential election.
In it’s brief statement, the department said that it regularly sends staff and federal observers to communities across the country to monitor compliance with federal civil rights laws. The staff works with “U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, [to enforce] the civil provisions of federal statutes that protect the right to vote.”
“The Justice Department enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot,” the department also said.
The agency noted that it will monitor the Tuesday state primary, but made no mention of early voting, which began on July 3 and concluded on Friday.
The statement reads, in full:
The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Maricopa County, Arizona, for the July 30 primary election.
The Justice Department enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country. In addition, the division also deploys federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management, where authorized by federal court order.
The Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section, working with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, enforces the civil provisions of federal statutes that protect the right to vote, including the Voting Rights Act, National Voter Registration Act, Help America Vote Act, Civil Rights Act and Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
More information about voting and elections is available on the Justice Department’s website at www.justice.gov/voting. Learn more about the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting laws at www.justice.gov/crt/voting-section. Complaints about possible violations of federal voting rights laws can be submitted through the Civil Rights Division’s website at civilrights.justice.gov or by telephone at 1-800-253-3931.
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Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.
Photo “Polling Place” by Aaron Webb CC2.0.
