DOJ sending 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states
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The Justice Department said Tuesday it will deploy about 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states for the first time ever to watch the polls. Why it matters: The unprecedented effort comes after courts repeatedly rejected the DOJ's efforts to force states to restrict voting for alleged noncitizens.…
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DOJ sending 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states
The Justice Department said Tuesday it will deploy about 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states for the first time ever to watch the polls. Why it matters: The unprecedented effort comes after courts repeatedly rejected the DOJ's efforts to force states to restrict voting for alleged noncitizens.…
Judge Denies Bid to Limit Whom DOJ Can Send as Poll Monitors
A federal judge denied an eleventh-hour bid by the NAACP to block the US Justice Department from deploying staff from federal law enforcement agencies to serve as poll monitors during the midterm election on Tuesday.
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DOJ announces deployment of election monitors in all 50 states for first time
The Department of Justice announced the largest voting-monitoring effort in its history, made up of around 1,000 monitors and observers deployed across all 50 states for the first time. For reference, former President Joe Biden’s DOJ sent fewer than 400 monitors to 24 states in the last midterm…
Federal judge orders DOJ to ensure poll monitors are not law enforcement officials
The NAACP failed to block Justice Department poll monitors, but a federal judge barred armed officers and anyone with arrest power on Election Day.
