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Feds Triple Number of Poll Watchers NewsMax.com WiresWASHINGTON - More than a thousand federal monitors will be watching Americans vote on Tuesday. That's more than triple the number the Justice Department employed four years ago. Half the states will have federal poll watchers, including the closely contested states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Iowa, Minnesota and New Mexico. Story Continues Below Monitors are also being dispatched to the mostly Southern states covered by the 1965 Voting Rights Act to guard against racial discrimination. In Florida, the epicenter of the vote-count controversy in 2000, the Justice Department will have observers in eight counties, including Broward, Palm Beach and Dade.
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