No Police Poll Watchers

A federal judge denied the NAACP’s request to block the Justice Department from deploying election monitors on Nov. 3, finding the group had not shown it was likely to succeed in its claim that the deployment would intimidate voters. Judge Reggie Walton ordered that monitors be administrative or clerical staff, unarmed, out of uniform, without arrest powers, and barred from interfering with voters or election officials. The Justice Department must report by 7 a.m. ET Tuesday how it verified the monitors meet those requirements.

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