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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2001

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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR ELECTIONS IN NEW YORK


WASHINGTON, D.C. The Justice Department will monitor the special municipal primary elections in New York on September 25, 2001. Justice Department attorneys will visit select polling places in New York City and will be available to take telephone complaints during polling hours.

Complaints about discriminatory voting practices in this election can be made by calling the Voting Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, toll free, at 1-800-253-3931. Attorneys will monitor the city's compliance with Chinese and Spanish language election procedures.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has assigned a Voting Rights Examiner to take telephone complaints for the New York City special municipal primary elections on September 25.

Voting Rights Examiners are federal employees assigned by OPM, under the authority of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to receive complaints of racial or minority language discrimination in voting practices from persons in counties that have been certified for Examiners under the Act. Voters in the certified counties of Bronx, Kings and New York may call the Examiner, toll free, at 1-888-496-9455.

More information about the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting laws is available on the Department of Justice Internet site at: www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting

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