§10309 Termination of Assignment of Observers

Summary

The assignment of observers must end in a local area in two situations. First, for observers put in under section 10305 or for examiners certified under chapters 103–107 before July 27, 2006, the assignment ends when the Attorney General tells the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or when the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia finds in a lawsuit by the local area that there is no longer reasonable cause to believe people will be denied the right to vote because of race or color or that the protections in section 10303(f)(2) are being violated. Second, observers placed under section 10302(a) end when the court that ordered them says so. A "political subdivision" for the first rule means an area where the Census Director has found that more than 50 percent of the nonwhite voting‑age residents are registered to vote. A political subdivision may petition the Attorney General to end observers under the first rule.