Texas’ top elections official told the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday its election monitors aren’t permitted in the state’s polling places after the federal agency announced plans to dispatch monitors to eight counties on Election Day to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws.

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    Sounds like they very explicitly don’t want oversight to see something. All the more reason those monitors need to be there.

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      Either that or because they want to feel like a big boy all mighty and powerful by telling the federal government to kick rocks