Justice Department sending election monitors to 2 Arkansas counties on Election Day
The U.S. Department of Justice will send election monitors to Arkansas’ two most populous counties on Election Day, prompting one of the counties to vote to not allow them inside polling places. The decision to send monitors to Washington and Pulaski counties comes several days after the start of early voting. The Washington County Election Commission cited a lack of timely notification from the federal government as its reason for not allowing the monitors inside polling places. The Pulaski County Election Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday to consider the same decision, election coordinator Amanda Dickens said. Washington County’s commissioners said there was no reason to monitor its elections, citing the accuracy of the recount it conducted in April’s Republican secretary of state primary runoff. Commissioner Matt Mendenhall said he was frustrated that the Justice Department did…
