Justice Department workers will be dispatched to polling sites across 24 states on Tuesday to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws during the 2022 midterm elections.
On the one hand, Reisner said, the increased use of mail-in ballots and drop boxes provides opportunities for some of the voter intimidation efforts seen in the lead-up to election day. But at the same time, she said, because so many people have now already voted, any intimidation efforts that may be undertaken on Tuesday will likely have less of an impact.
Reisner also noted that while she and her colleagues will be closely monitoring any incidents of voter intimidation that are reported on Tuesday, their concern is actually greater for the post-election day period. In the meantime, Bill Braniff, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, cautioned against inadvertently discouraging those who have not yet voted from doing so by over-amplifying the potential risk of harassment at the polls.
Braniff, an Army veteran, is also a co-founder and board member of Vet the Vote, a nonpartisan group that has recruited 63,000 military veterans to volunteer as poll workers. He spoke to Yahoo News on Monday while on his way to set up his local polling station, where he would be serving as an election judge on Tuesday.
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