§10309 Termination of Assignment of Observers

Summary

Observers sent to a local government to watch voting must stop in that area when certain conditions are met. For observers sent under section 10305, or for examiners certified under chapters 103–107 before July 27, 2006, they end when the Attorney General tells the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to end them, or when the District Court for the District of Columbia rules in a suit by a qualifying subdivision that there is no longer good reason to think people will be denied the right to vote because of race or color or in violation of the protections in section 10303(f)(2). Observers sent under section 10302(a) end when the court that authorized them orders it. A qualifying political subdivision is one where the Census Director found that more than 50 percent of the nonwhite voting-age residents are registered to vote. A subdivision can ask the Attorney General to end the assignment under the first rule.