US Justice Dept sends 1,000 monitors to all 50 states
The Trump DOJ election monitors plan will place about three times as many federal observers as the last midterms, focusing on competitive races and voter-access trouble spots.
The US Justice Department said it is deploying 1,000 election monitors and observers to all 50 states.
It described the plan as the largest Election Day monitoring effort in the department’s history, roughly triple the last midterm total.
Priorities include areas with past voter-access problems and competitive races seen as possible targets of intimidation.
Monitors will check federal voting-rights compliance; they cannot stop people from voting or run on-the-spot investigations.
Several states have issued guidance on the limited authority DOJ observers will have at polling places.