The Justice Department plans to send a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places across the United States for the midterm elections, according to the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced the deployment in comments to Bloomberg on Monday.
Across this primary season the DOJ has already deployed more than 75 monitors to over 200 polling locations in five states.
The DOJ is monitoring polling sites in Florida and Wyoming today for the states’ primary elections, focusing on transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law. Four Civil Rights Division attorneys are on the ground in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Two are monitoring in Laramie County, Wyoming.
From now through the November 3 general election, the public can submit questions or complaints about federal voting rights laws, or request monitoring in a specific jurisdiction, by emailing VEM@usdoj.gov.
