Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to midterm polling places
Summary
The Justice Department plans to send a record 1,000 federal monitors to U.S. voting locations for the midterm elections. These monitors will help ensure that voting rights laws are followed and prevent discrimination or unfair treatment at polling places.Key Facts
- The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced the plan to send 1,000 monitors, the highest number ever deployed.
- Monitors help enforce the Voting Rights Act, a law that bans discrimination based on race, gender, or other protected groups.
- Usually, the department sends only dozens of civil rights attorneys as monitors, but this time it will also ask federal employees to volunteer.
- In 2024, monitors checked voting rights compliance in 86 areas across 27 states.
- The Civil Rights Division lost over 70% of its career staff after leadership changes under Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
- The DOJ has filed 31 lawsuits to get full voter data from states to check for voter registration problems, but judges have blocked these requests in most cases.
- Some states are suspicious of the DOJ’s increased monitoring due to these lawsuits and concerns about election integrity claims.
- President Donald Trump has claimed without proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and federal investigations related to the 2020 election continue in some states.
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