Source: Reuters
“The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge on Monday to block the U.S. Justice Department from sending lawyers to St. Louis on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws, even after the city’s election board agreed to permit it. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri by the state’s attorney general and secretary of state, accuses the Justice Department of making an 11th hour plan that intends to ‘displace state election authorities’ by sending poll monitors on Tuesday to locations throughout St. Louis. Republican former President Donald Trump, who faces Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, continues to falsely claim that his 2020 defeat was the result of widespread fraud. He has urged his supporters to turn out at polling places to watch for suspected fraud.” (11/04/24)