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佐治亚州道尔顿市，2026年3月10日——在佐治亚州第14国会选区的补选中，投票站入口处展示着投票标识。该席位因共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林1月辞职而空缺。路透社/艾丽萨·波因特 购买许可权（新标签页打开）
华盛顿，3月12日（路透社） – 美国人事管理局（OPM），即联邦政府的人力资源办公室，周四表示，正在评估一个旨在解决投票中种族歧视问题的选举观察项目的成本。
OPM称，在与司法部协商后，正在评估该项目2025年约250万美元的成本是否合理，以及是否会实施改革。
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该观察项目仅限于美国司法部长收到“有价值的书面投诉”称存在投票种族歧视的情况。
2013年，美国最高法院对阿拉巴马州谢尔比县的一项裁决大幅缩减了联邦观察项目。该裁决废除了《选举权法》中要求有种族歧视历史的州和地区在修改选举法前必须获得联邦批准的条款。
1965年《选举权法》是20世纪60年代民权运动的标志性立法成果。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻周四早些时候报道称，白宫正在考虑终止旨在保护少数族裔投票权的选举观察项目的资金支持。
白宫将问题转交给了司法部。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻援引的司法部发言人表示，该部门没有计划终止民权部门的独立选举监督项目。
OPM周四表示，目前联邦选举观察项目在三个法院下令实施监督的地区开展工作，包括新泽西州的联合县、罗德岛州的波塔基特，以及阿拉斯加州的两个地区。
美国中期选举定于11月举行。总统唐纳德·特朗普领导的共和党目前在国会参众两院仅以微弱优势占据多数席位。
特朗普在选举前向共和党议员施压，要求实施投票限制。
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US OPM evaluates cost of observer program looking at race discrimination in voting
March 13, 2026 2:31 AM UTC / Reuters
By Kanishka Singh
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WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources office, said on Thursday it was evaluating the cost of an election observer program that aimed to tackle race discrimination in voting.
The OPM said that in consultation with the Justice Department it was evaluating whether the costs of the program, which were about $2.5 million in 2025, were justified and whether reforms would be implemented.
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It also said the observer program is confined to instances where the U.S. attorney general has received a “written meritorious complaint” of race discrimination in voting.
The federal observer program was scaled back earlier by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2013 involving Alabama’s Shelby County. The ruling gutted a Voting Rights Act provision that had required states and locales with a history of racial discrimination to get federal approval to change voting laws.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a signature legislative achievement of the 1960s civil rights movement.
CBS News reported earlier on Thursday that the White House is considering ending funding for the election observer program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote.
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The White House referred questions to the Justice Department.
A Justice Department spokesperson cited by CBS News said the department has no plans to end its own separate election monitoring program in the civil rights division.
The federal election observer program currently has operations going in three locations where court orders have been issued, the OPM said on Thursday. They included Union County in New Jersey, Pawtucket in Rhode Island, and two areas in Alaska.
Midterm elections in the U.S. are scheduled for November. President Donald Trump’s Republican Party currently holds a narrow majority in both chambers of Congress.
Trump has pressed Republican lawmakers for voting restrictions ahead of the elections.
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Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis and Tom Hogue
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