“To secure elections, Missouri exercised that traditional authority by enacting a law that strictly limits who, besides ...
The only location in Missouri it is sending poll monitors to is St. Louis, which in January 2021 reached a settlement with ...
ST. LOUIS — UPDATE: A U.S. District judge denied Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft's request for a temporary restraining order against the Department of Justice over poll watching plans.
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 ...
Officials in Missouri also banned DOJ monitors in 2022. During the 2020 election, the Justice Department under then-President Donald Trump sent poll monitors to 44 jurisdictions in 18 states.
Officials in Florida and Texas have said they won’t allow federal election monitors into polling sites on Tuesday. And on Monday, Missouri filed ... voters, poll workers, election judges ...
Ramsdell announced Friday the DOJ planned ... The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit against the department on Monday, asking a judge to block the federal agency from sending poll monitors, Reuters ...