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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno's ain metropolis unit volition beryllium monitoring polling sites up of the Proposition 50 peculiar election, the Fresno City Council announced Thursday.
The announcement comes aft the Department of Justice announced past week that they would besides beryllium monitoring sites successful California and New Jersey. State officials are besides expected astatine Fresno polling sites to show Tuesday's predetermination arsenic well.
Fresno Councilmember Nelson Esparanza said that this was not a bipartisan determination and that they felt compelled to assistance easiness people's minds.
"This is an effort to guarantee transparency and an effort to quell concerns and anxieties by Fresno residents... Our extremity is to guarantee folks tin ballot without incidents and smoothly connected predetermination day," Esparanza said.
The predetermination is connected Nov. 4, but residents tin ballot up of clip astatine polling centers wrong the city.
Fresno City Council President Mike Karbassi said that the metropolis is going to bash its portion to guarantee that they person much eyes watching however the elections are tally successful the metropolis limits.
Andrew Janz, Fresno's metropolis attorney, said that this is to guarantee that determination is nary elector intimidation, nary elector interference and to marque definite each counts are counted.
Janz says that determination are 12 locations that they volition beryllium focusing on. Monitors from the metropolis volition commencement connected Friday and beryllium determination each the mode up until predetermination day, though Janz says it volition beryllium connected the resources from his office.
