A federal judge late Monday rejected an effort by Missouri’s Republican leaders to ban Justice Department election monitors from entering polling sites in St. Louis County on Election Day.
Republican led-states seeking to block Justice Department election monitors from standing outside polling places aren’t finding success. A federal judge late Monday denied Missouri’s effort to ...
Missouri’s lawsuit argued that the Justice Department’s plan to send poll monitors on Tuesday amounted to a “last-minute” attempt to “displace state election authorities,” Reuters reports. DOJ counsel ...
Specifically, Missouri sought to prevent federal poll monitors from entering its polling places, arguing that their presence would violate Missouri election law. After ordering a prompt response ...
Federal judges denied two states’ requests to bar the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day. Missouri and Texas ...
A couple drowned on their way to work their local polling center on Election Day, according to Missouri police and news reports. The couple, a 73-year-old woman and 70-year-old man, were driving ...
A married couple in Missouri volunteering as poll workers on Tuesday died tragically in flash floods that rocked southern and eastern parts of the state on Election Day, according to local officials.