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, said she was “not persuaded” by Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s eleventh-hour motion, noting that the DOJ only planned to make sure polling places in St. Louis were compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.Ashcroft, a Republican, brought the lawsuit Monday morning after the DOJ announced last week that it would be deploying its staff to watch over polling places in 86 jurisdictions across more than two dozen states.
The DOJ responded by pointing to a settlement agreement it reached with the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners in 2021 that authorized the poll monitoring as a result of the department identifying dozens of alleged ADA violations at polling places.
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