Florida Blocks DOJ Monitors From Polling Locations

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

The U.S. Department of Justice will watch for voting rights violations in four Florida counties on Election Day — but their observers won’t be inside polling locations, election officials said Friday.

The DOJ is sending personnel to 86 areas in 27 states, including Broward, Miami-Dade, Orange and Osceola counties in Florida, to ensure compliance with civil rights laws. Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, a Gov. Ron DeSantis appointee, advised the DOJ on Friday that state law doesn’t explicitly permit federal election monitors to be inside polling locations.

“We told them that under state law that is not permitted, and we asked them to respect state law,” Byrd said at the time. “They can go there and do their job, but they have to do that job outside of the polling place.”

Read the full article. Cord Byrd, a DeSantis appointee, first appeared here when he was seen flying a QAnon flag from his boat.

Florida tells DOJ their election monitors are not permitted inside polling placehttps://t.co/gN1zL076dE

— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) November 1, 2024

Federal authorities earlier today said they planned to monitor elections in 27 states including 4 counties in Florida. Sec. of State @CordByrd this p.m. sent a letter to DOJ Civil Rights Division stating that their monitors are not allowed in polling places …. https://t.co/k3NDpHWMFi

— Gary Fineout (@fineout) November 1, 2024