Feds to monitor polls in Brooklyn and Queens on Election Day
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To forestall even the appearance of hanky panky, the Justice Department announced on Monday that its Civil Rights Division plans to deploy personnel to Brooklyn and Queens to monitor Tuesday’s general election.
The poll-monitoring plan is part of a broader monitoring effort deploying 500 personnel to 67 jurisdictions in 28 states.
Over the summer, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez asked the agency to send federal monitors following the voting purge scandal that erroneously removed more than 122,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls of registered voters.