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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Department of Justice announced Friday that immoderate polling sites successful California and New Jersey volition beryllium monitored, including Fresno County.
Fresno County Clerk James Kus said the DOJ’s beingness successful this year's peculiar predetermination is welcome, but his bureau wasn’t fixed announcement up of time.
“We've had astir 91, 92,000 ballots successful full returned truthful acold to this point, which is simply a precise bully number," Fresno County Clerk James Kus said.
October 26 is time 2 of aboriginal in-person voting successful Fresno County. Voters crossed California are weighing successful connected Proposition 50.
"We person 9 locations unfastened close present crossed the county. We've had astir 400, 500 in-person voters,” Kus said.
But voters mightiness announcement thing erstwhile heading to the polls. According to the DOJ, 5 California counties are being monitored to guarantee transparency, ballot information and compliance with national law.
"I deliberation it's bully that we person transparency present successful Fresno County,” Fresno County Supervisor for District 5 Nathan Magsig said.
He added that helium welcomes the news.
“We've got the superior coming up successful June of adjacent year. And, of course, the wide predetermination successful November. So thing that the Department of Justice whitethorn find, wherever there's opportunities for america to amended present successful California and much specifically successful Fresno County, we're unfastened to that," Magsig said.
However, the County Clerk said helium was ne'er informed by the DOJ.
"It was a spot astonishing due to the fact that we hadn't had that outreach. And astir predetermination reflection groups, they scope retired to america up of clip to fto america cognize they're coming," Kus said.
But Kus is giving grace.
“They whitethorn beryllium conscionable getting this going truthful they whitethorn not beryllium rather acceptable for it. I mean, it's not each authorities that has aboriginal elections oregon aboriginal voting opportunities similar we person present successful Fresno County," Kus said.
Kus added that predetermination monitoring is common, but it’s been immoderate clip since the DOJ was backmost successful Fresno County.
"We person had observers from the DOJ successful past elections, though it has not happened successful the past 4 years,” Kus said.
On October 24, Governor Gavin Newsom’s bureau responded to the determination to show California’s election.
Kus besides said that voters should formed their ballots arsenic aboriginal arsenic imaginable to debar agelong lines and dense crowds arsenic we attack Nov. 4.
