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What Are Election Monitors? Get the Facts on the DOJ's Record Deployment
The decades-old program will send about 1,000 monitors to counties nationwide, while critics warn the effort is shifting under the Trump administration.
- The Justice Department is launching its largest-ever election monitoring effort, deploying around 1,000 monitors across all 50 states for Election Day.
- Carmen Daugherty, executive director of the Advancement Project, claims monitors are being used "to hunt for fraud" rather than protecting voters. The Advancement Project and the NAACP filed a lawsuit earlier this month to block the deployment.
- Wyoming Republican Gov. Mark Gordon described monitors' behavior as "a bit aggressive" and "irregular." Officials in North Carolina and New Mexico reported not receiving specific deployment details from the DOJ as of Monday.
- Rejecting the lawsuit, the Justice Department called it "unwarranted fear and baseless speculation." DOJ spokesperson Kiersten Pels said monitors will "merely observe" and report potential violations for review after Election Day.
- Nicole Hansen with the Campaign Legal Center defended the program as having "had a lot of success in uncovering instances of discrimination." Hansen said voters should trust "critical federal laws to protect them from intimidation.
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Justice Department targets Chatham, other Democratic areas for election monitors
The U.S. Justice Department announced plans to deploy monitors to several Georgia counties, including Democratic strongholds like Chatham and Fulton, during next week's midterm elections. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.
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