{"id":1609774,"date":"2022-08-17T06:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609774"},"modified":"2022-08-17T06:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:50:53","slug":"justice-department-to-monitor-alaskan-primaries-for-compliance-with-voting-rights-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-to-monitor-alaskan-primaries-for-compliance-with-voting-rights-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department to Monitor Alaskan Primaries for Compliance With Voting Rights Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-department-to-monitor-alaskan-primaries-for-compliance-with-voting-rights-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1609774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-justice-department\">Justice Department<\/a> said that it would monitor the Alaskan ranked-choice primary elections on Tuesday in certain jurisdictions to ensure compliance with voting rights laws for minority languages and disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The effort is to make sure the elections are administrated according to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Division regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with the federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country,\u201d the department said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-monitor-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws-alaska-jurisdictions\">statement<\/a>. \u201cIn addition, the Division also deploys monitors from the Office of Personnel Management, where authorized by federal court order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alaska\">Alaska<\/a> is one of two states holding primary elections on Tuesday.\u00a0On election day, officials from the department\u2019s\u00a0Civil Rights Division monitored Anchorage; Juneau; and Bethel, Dillingham, and Kusilvak census areas.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting in a number of jurisdictions has already been monitored in Anchorage, Juneau, Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska-Susitna, Denali, Fairbanks North Star, and the Yukon-Koyukuk census areas, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p> Alaskan Native Language Rules <\/p>\n<p>Alaska has 14 census areas where language assistance is required by law in at least one native Alaskan language.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of an extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1975, Congress mandated that political subdivisions also provide voting in minority languages.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department\u2019s compliance effort aims to ensure Alaskans who primarily speak a native language aren\u2019t in any way disenfranchized during the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0a 2019 report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccr.gov\/files\/pubs\/2019\/09-19-AK-SAC-Voting-Report.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) by the Alaska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Congress also mandated that voters in the 14 Alaskan census areas be properly informed by multiple means about\u00a0the availability of language assistance at polling sites on election day.<\/p>\n<p>However, during the 2016 Alaskan primary elections federal officials found deficiencies in training for poll workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Justice Department said that it would monitor the Alaskan ranked-choice primary elections on Tuesday in certain jurisdictions to ensure compliance with voting rights laws for minority languages and disabilities. 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