DOJ issues guidance cautioning states on so-called election 'audits.'
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"This document sets down a marker that says the Justice Department is concerned about this, and we will be following this closely," a DOJ official told reporters on a media conference call Wednesday.Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks about voting rights legislation at a news conference at the Department of Justice on June 25, 2021, in Washington.
After the department's letter, Arizona officials backed off of a plan to send contractors from the group to visit homes in the state's largest county of Maricopa to ask voters whether or not they had cast ballots. The Wednesday guidance includes a warning that officials who seek to embark on such"audits" can't do so in a way that will intimidate voters.
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