Florida, Texas and Missouri seek to block federal election monitors.#USElections2024Countdown
Officials in the states of Florida and Texas have said they will not allow Justice Department election monitors into polling sites tomorrow while Missouri also has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block federal observers.
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In a letter to the Justice Department, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson wrote that “Texas law is clear: Justice Department monitors are not permitted inside polling places where ballots are being cast or a central counting station where ballots are being counted.”
“Texas has a robust processes and procedures in place to ensure that eligible voters may participate in a free and fair election,” Nelson wrote.
In the Missouri lawsuit, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft accused the federal government of “attempting to illegally interfere in Missouri’s elections”.
The moves to push out federal observers in the Republican-led states challenges federal authorities’ longstanding role in watching for violations of voting laws.
The Justice Department plans to send its monitors to 86 jurisdictions across 27 states on Election Day tomorrow. They include Maricopa County, Arizona and Fulton County, Georgia, which in 2020 became the centres of election conspiracy theories spread by Trump and other Republicans.
