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[CITE: 42USC1973f]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                     CHAPTER 20--ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
 
              SUBCHAPTER I-A--ENFORCEMENT OF VOTING RIGHTS
 
Sec. 1973f. Observers at elections; assignment; duties; reports

    Whenever an examiner is serving under subchapters I-A to I-C of this 
title in any political subdivision, the Director of the Office of 
Personnel Management may assign, at the request of the Attorney General, 
one or more persons, who may be officers of the United States, (1) to 
enter and attend at any place for holding an election in such 
subdivision for the purpose of observing whether persons who are 
entitled to vote are being permitted to vote, and (2) to enter and 
attend at any place for tabulating the votes cast at any election held 
in such subdivision for the purpose of observing whether votes cast by 
persons entitled to vote are being properly tabulated. Such persons so 
assigned shall report to an examiner appointed for such political 
subdivision, to the Attorney General, and if the appointment of 
examiners has been authorized pursuant to section 1973a(a) of this 
title, to the court.

(Pub. L. 89-110, title I, Sec. 8, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 441; renumbered 
title I, Pub. L. 91-285, Sec. 2, June 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 314; amended 
1978 Reorg. Plan. No. 2, Sec. 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 
Stat. 3783.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Director of the Office of Personnel Management'' substituted in 
text for ``Civil Service Commission'' pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 
1978, Sec. 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 
of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred all 
functions vested by statute in United States Civil Service Commission to 
Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise 
specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1-102 of Ex. 
Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 
of Title 5.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1973i of this title.
