Pinellas County is one of three counties in Florida the U.S. Department of Justice is monitoring on election day.
The move, announced Monday, is a part of checks to ensure election officials follow voting laws.
Also being monitored are Palm Beach and DeSoto counties. The department’s monitoring for Tuesday’s midterm election spans 35 areas across 19 states.
“This year we are using every lawful tool that we have, both civil and criminal, to protect the rights of millions of Americans to cast their vote unimpeded at one of more than 170,000 precincts across America,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a news release. “Citizens of America control this country through their selection of their governmental officials at the ballot box. Likewise, fraud in the voting process will not be tolerated. Fraud also corrupts the integrity of the ballot.”
The department said it has such monitoring regularly since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Here is where the Department of Justice will monitor on Tuesday:
- Bethel Census Area, Alaska
- Dillingham Census Area, Alaska
- Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
- Apache County, Arizona
- Cochise County, Arizona
- Maricopa County, Arizona
- Navajo County, Arizona
- Sacramento County, California
- San Mateo County, California
- DeSoto County, Florida
- Palm Beach County, Florida
- Pinellas County, Florida
- Fulton County, Georgia
- Gwinnett County, Georgia
- Buena Vista County, Iowa
- Ford County, Kansas
- Lowell, Massachusetts
- Malden, Massachusetts
- Clark County, Nevada
- Washoe County, Nevada
- Middlesex County, New Jersey
- Union County, New Jersey
- Erie County, New York
- Benson County, North Dakota
- Rolette County, North Dakota
- Texas County, Oklahoma
- Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- Buffalo County, South Dakota
- Harris County, Texas
- Tarrant County, Texas
- Waller County, Texas
- San Juan County, Utah
- Fairfax County, Virginia
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