Federal Justice Department to Monitor Elections in California, New Mexico, South Dakota & WISCONSIN

[eowyn_of_rohan]

Source: U.S.D.O.J website

Federal Justice Department to Monitor Elections in California, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wisconsin

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor elections on June 5, 2012, in the following jurisdictions to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes: Alameda, Fresno and Riverside Counties, Calif.; Cibola and Sandoval Counties, N.M.; Shannon County, S.D.; and the city of Milwaukee."
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/​2012/June/12-crt-709.html




Read more: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/​2012/June/12-crt-709.html

[eowyn_of_rohan]

1. Emphasis of Wisconsin mine , because I am a Wisconsinite - no offense to the other states!!

I love them all

It seems the link doesn't work from DU. Dont understand it--can access it from other sites
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/June/12-crt-709.html

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, June 4, 2012
Justice Department to Monitor Elections in California, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wisconsin

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor elections on June 5, 2012, in the following jurisdictions to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes: Alameda, Fresno and Riverside Counties, Calif.; Cibola and Sandoval Counties, N.M.; Shannon County, S.D.; and the city of Milwaukee.

The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group. In addition, the act requires certain covered jurisdictions to provide language assistance during the election process. Fresno County, Riverside County and the city of Milwaukee are required to provide assistance in Spanish. Cibola, Sandoval and Shannon Counties are required to provide language assistance to Native American voters. Alameda County is required to provide language assistance to Hispanic, Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino voters.

...In addition, Justice Department personnel will monitor polling place activities in Fresno County, Cibola County and the city of Milwaukee. Civil Rights Division attorneys will coordinate federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

2. toll-free number to call about harassment, intimidation etc

In addition, Justice Department personnel will monitor polling place activities in Fresno County, Cibola County and the city of Milwaukee. Civil Rights Division attorneys will coordinate federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.

Each year, the Justice Department deploys hundreds of federal observers from OPM, as well as departmental staff, to monitor elections across the country. To file complaints about discriminatory voting practices, including acts of harassment or intimidation, voters may call the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division at 1-800-253-3931.

[shcrane71]

3. Didn't Jimmy Carter's institute find that voting practices in the US

don't lend themselves to ensuring fair elections? It's nice the Federal government is going to oversee elections, but they're not exactly independent are they?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

11. we'll see how it plays out... seems that's all we're able to do these days!

In my dreams, they are coming to make sure Van Hollen's WI DOJ thugs dont infringe on voters rights in Milwaukee. Maybe they are coming to aid and abet the WI DoJ gang.. I dont know.

[shcrane71]

31. Hope for the best, expect the worst! That's what my mom always said. nt

[kestrel91316]

4. Your links don't work.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

5. yep--just edited the op about that -i have no idea why

will try to find a better one

[Evasporque]

6. fixed link

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/June/12-crt-709.html

[eowyn_of_rohan]

7. thanks!

they look the same to me but yours works

[The Wielding Truth]

8. This is the meaning of making a country free for democracy.

[slackmaster]

9. Ballots are provided in six languages in my precinct in San Diego

It's an amazing pile of versions in a primary election.

[EFerrari]

10. Why not Los Angeles County? That's worse than Fresno or Alameda

Last edited Mon Jun 4, 2012, 03:08 PM - Edit history (1)

and just as bad as Riverside.

/typo

[L. Coyote]

14. Actually, it is "better than" if there are more languages :-)

Albeit, I get your point, of course.

[EFerrari]

21. Sorry.

[Dustlawyer]

12. I have a 3 word response, "Diebald voting machines."

[eowyn_of_rohan]

15. Diebold is no more~we still have ES&S (bought Diebold), & Dominion (bought Sequoia) to fear & loathe

EI is my personal pet issue, and all I have been working on in Wisconsin since last April - except for collecting signatures to recall Walker.

The USDOJ Won't TOUCH election fraud. So we have to continue fighting in via the grassroots

[cyberpj]

39. "The USDOJ Won't TOUCH election fraud"

And I don't get that at all.
Especially now that Obama has been in office.
I just don't get it.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

41. because they are probably in on it

or bound and gagged

[L. Coyote]

16. "Diebold" is no more, and was just a brand name anyway. Black box is the problem

A black box voting machine is an electronic device, where each vote goes in and the black box tells you the totals, but you never get to see anything else, not ballots nor the proprietary code that decides if 1 + 1 = 2 or NOT!

All electronic voting still prevails in parts of the USA. That must be ended ASAP!

[L. Coyote]

13. Are they also investigating the Milwaukee Anomaly?

Hopefully, the Wisconsin Dems learned their lesson from the Supreme Court special election.
That, of course, is one of two possible lessons:

1.) Don't let them cheat and steal votes, or
2.) Get out the vote in the City of Milwaukee.

Some will remember the Milwaukee Anomaly, a huge red shift in the very bluest part of the state while the rest of WI shifted blue.
Did the blue voters stay home only in the City of Milwaukee, or did someone rig the election in Democrat-rich inner Milwaukee?
Meanwhile, in Waukesha County, the vote results were normal with nothing anomalous except the screw-ups in reporting the fully-expected results.




http://jqjacobs.net/politics/spreadsheets.html#wisconsin

If Dems want to win this one, Milwaukee is where they have to focus either a powerful get-out-the-vote effort or a high level of scrutiny. I recommend BOTH!

You have to wonder what the "John Doe" investigation knows about the Milwaukee vote result irregularity given the concentration of Walker's Republican crooks there.

[TrollBuster9090]

22. Great graphics! Thanks! And...

I just looked up the meaning of the word "anomaly" in the dictionary.

Anomaly: n. Ah-NOM-ah-LEE. Theft. To steal an election. (see: Corrupt, political election officials).


Personally, I find it a disgrace that the most powerful, prestigious democracy in the world has the crappiest, most backwards voting protocol.

[L. Coyote]

27. That definition just does not, given recent history, fit perfectly with

inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected.
If you steal too many elections, it just isn't anomalous anymore.

No wonder they had to redefine it.

[cyberpj]

40. Any Canadians here? My Canadian Familied husband says they still use paper and pen there and

are content to wait as long as it takes to physically count and tally the votes for the result.

Is that true?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

29. Thanks! would you mind if I shared these images?-nt

[woodsprite]

17. They better be monitoring FL in November, too. n/t

[HooptieWagon]

26. +1000

[L. Coyote]

33. Too late perhaps if Florida voters aren't monitoring their registration status.

Florida 2000 taught us that the R's first front of illegal irregularities is to selectively delete voters that vote very consistently and predominantly blue--voter registration caging. Control who votes and no need to stuff ballot boxes!

Everyone everywhere needs to verify their own registration status.
Be conscious of expected communications from elections. If you don't get the paperwork, you may need to register even if you think you are registered.

[tabasco]

19. They sending some of those Liberty U. grads

that Bush packed the department with?

[milwaukeelib33]

20. I'd rather they watch Waukesha

At my polling place in Milwaukee during the one election we had to show ID before it was stricken down, the poll workers unabashedly ripped voter ID verbally. The city is very blue and the poll workers are hardly going to put up any roadblocks to voting. They are on our side.

Now Waukesha, OTOH, we've seen the shenanigans that go on out there.

[L. Coyote]

24. They'd rather you watch the R votes instead too!

After all, there is no point in R's stealing votes where everyone votes R, so get on over there and guard those R votes right away

At the magic show, never watch the hand they want you to watch.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

30. Yes-- they have everyone focused on Waukesha

when there have been suspicious election numbers, "glitches", hostile clerks, security breaches, etc in many other areas of the state too.

[milwaukeelib33]

35. It's not about protecting R votes

If you had any idea of what goes down in WI, you'd realize that. It's the MAGICALLY appearing additional R votes that seem to appear after much delay in reporting vote totals. Ripped open ballot bags that most likely were stuffed fraudulently. Don't speak on things you know nothing about.

[L. Coyote]

36. "Don't speak on things you know nothing about."

You might want to Google "L. Coyote" and election integrity (or watch the award-winning election integrity films I produced).

[milwaukeelib33]

38. Ohhhhhhhhh

So sorry, you with supreme knowledge. Are you in Wisconsin? Have your works focused on Wisconsin, particularly the State Supreme Court election? If not, then you don't know shit about what is going on here. Here is your first piece of evidence to examine:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8511

There you go internet tough guy

[L. Coyote]

42. Old news

and a great place for the myopic to point to

[eowyn_of_rohan]

25. I wish they'd go there too, but Waukesha 's problem is election fraud not voter rights violations

USDOJ deals with the latter. Unfortunate that Waukesha will not only have the Nickolaus and Vrakas mob running the election but also the Van Hollen gang will be there to look out for "voter fraud" problems rather than election fraud.... should be a real party... MNBC will be there, as I understand it - that's at least a plus.

[TrollBuster9090]

23. I have only one thing to say about this:

I know it's only a small thing, they're only concentrating in a few places, and they won't do anything to address voter purges or rigged electronic voting machines.....BUT the very fact that the Obama Administration's Justice Department appears to be growing even a rudimentary, embryonic set of gonads is reason for celebration!

Holder and Obama have spent far too much time shitting their pants over the thought that some right wing loons may call them "radical" (or better yet, UPPITY). Start doing your jobs. If you're going to insist on governing like Republicans because you're afraid of Republicans, we may as well HAVE Republicans governing.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

28. :) Yes I think so too. after going back and forth on it.

I want help with ELECTION FRAUD!!! But this is good and important too!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

32. I'm not sure if this is good enough. It may be too late, but glad that there will be something.

ETA: The Justice Department should have intervened earlier when these states were passing voter ID laws and other acts of suppression, such as outlawing or putting restrictions on early voting, not allowing students to register to vote using their student IDs, closing down voter registration hubs, etc. I just fear that it may be too late.

[Scuba]

34. The election here in Wisconsin tomorrow will be one of the most closely watched in history.

[WilliamPitt]

37. Neither link works.