DOJ Sending Election Monitors to Indiana Sparks Debate

Marion County election officials detail DOJ's plan to send monitors to polling sites on Election Day

INDIANAPOLIS— Wednesday, attorneys with the Marion County Clerk’s Office spoke with representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division about the DOJ’s plan to send election monitors to Marion County. According to Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell, up to 12 election monitors in plain clothes will visit the county on Election Day. [...]

Marion County Clerk shares details on federal election monitoring as Republicans reinforce support

INDIANAPOLIS – The Marion County Election Board held a call with U.S. Department of Justice officials on Wednesday to learn details on the Election Day deployment of federal election monitors. Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell, a Democrat, said there will be 12 federal monitors split up into six groups of two, covering the county’s […]

Federal election monitors won't enter Indiana polling sites, officials say

Two-dozen federal Department of Justice monitors will observe Election Day voting in two Indiana counties from outside the polling locations, election officials said Wednesday. Up to 12 are expected to come to central Indiana’s Marion County, with another dozen going to Lake County near Chicago — heavily blue areas that host the state’s only Democratic […]

DOJ to send election monitors to Northwest Indiana

The Department of Justice announced plans to monitor polling places in two majority-Democratic Indiana counties: Lake, in the northwest corner of the state, and Marion, home to Indianapolis. Nationwide, DOJ will deploy about 1,000 monitors, seeking potential violations of federal law to be reviewed after election day.

DOJ sending election monitors to Indiana sparks debate

The Department of Justice is sending election monitors to Marion and Lake counties for the Nov.3 midterm election.

DOJ sending election observers to Indianapolis, Lake County

INDIANAPOLIS — Federal observers are coming to Indiana’s Marion and Lake counties on Election Day as voters in the two heavily Democratic areas cast their votes.