Federal Poll Watchers Fan Out Across San Diego
POSTED: 8:40 am PST November 7, 2006
UPDATED: 1:06 pm PST November 7, 2006
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SAN DIEGO -- Federal poll watchers are fanning out to San Diego and across the county to safeguard against fraud or discrimination in election districts marked by tight races, large numbers of minority voters and faulty ballot machines.
NBCSandiego.com's Live Election Coverage Begins at 8 p.m.
Poll watchers will be in 22 states today. Monitors and observers are being assigned to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which has been dogged by problems with computerized touch-screen voting machines. They will be in Bergen County, New Jersey, a must-win prize for both candidates in the state's Senate race.
In all, the Justice Department is sending an estimated 850 poll watchers to 69 cities and counties. Officials said today that it was an unprecedented number, and twice as many during the 2002 congressional midterm elections.
San Diego is one of eight California counties that will have federal ballot-box watchers. The others are Alameda, Orange, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Ventura.
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