The Justice Department begins notifying counties where it wants to monitor #elections
Miles Parks, October 21, 2026
"The Department of Justice this week began notifying the counties it wants to monitor on #ElectionDay, NPR has learned.
"Counties in #Colorado, #Florida, #Minnesota, #Texas and #Washington have received notifications from the Justice Department so far, but the list seems to be growing in real time.
"The department has long deployed #monitors to ensure compliance with voting laws, but the Trump administration's unprecedented steps to try to wrestle control over elections from local and state governments have led to new concerns about DOJ monitoring this year. And already this week, at least one county official is raising questions about why his locality is on the DOJ's list.
"Last month, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department's #CivilRights Division, said the department planned to send 1,000 observers nationwide, in what she termed 'the largest monitoring effort' in DOJ history."
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https://www.npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-6009896/justice-department-monitors
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