Cops would be allowed at some polling stations under plan spurred by school shootings
on election days in New Jersey, state lawmakers are now advancing a bill that would allow them at schools and senior centers that operate as voting locations.
The new bill was introduced in June, about a month after 19 students and two teachers were killed in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.on Election Day in response to the mass shootings. Get politics news like this right to your inbox with the N.J. Politics newsletter. Add your email below and hit"subscribe"But Henal Patel, director of the Democracy & Justice Program of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice points to
Yannick Wood, director of the Criminal Justice Reform Program at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, told the Assembly Appropriations committee on Thursday the bill would “roll back the progress we’ve all made” and that formerly imprisoned people on parole might especially avoid voting because of police presence.
But state Sen. Shirley Turner, a main sponsor of the current law, said the actual intent of the group was voter intimidation in minority communities.
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