{"id":3753,"date":"2026-11-03T19:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2026-11-03T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:03:52","slug":"trumps-justice-dept-identifies-where-us-election-monitors-will-be-in-the-50-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3753","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Justice Dept identifies where US election monitors will be in the 50 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Justice Department said on Tuesday it was deploying 1,000 election monitors and observers \u200bto all 50 states in what it called \u200cthe largest Election Day monitoring effort in history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Justice Department statement identified which jurisdictions within the states would receive monitors and observers.<\/p>\n<p>Department \u200bofficials have said priorities include areas with a history \u200bof voter access issues and places with competitive \u2060races that could be targets of voter intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bTrump administration has taken an increasingly aggressive approach to election oversight, \u200bpressing states for voter-registration data and arguing that stricter measures are needed to ensure public confidence in the vote. Critics view \u200bthe moves as federal overreach.<\/p>\n<p>The expanded federal monitoring program \u200bled several states to issue new guidelines to local election officials \u200cand \u2060poll workers about the limited authority DOJ observers will have on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection monitors will be checking for compliance with the federal voting rights statutes that fall \u200bwithin the jurisdiction \u200bof the (Civil \u2060Rights Division),\u201d the Justice Department statement<u> <\/u>said.<\/p>\n<p>Some state and local laws allow election officials to \u200bprevent DOJ monitors from being present inside \u200bpolling \u2060locations. DOJ staff cannot conduct investigations on the spot or otherwise stop anyone from voting.<\/p>\n<p>The number of monitors is \u2060roughly \u200btriple the number in the last \u200bmidterm election. The deployment would be the largest observation effort in \u200bthe department\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department said on Tuesday it was deploying 1,000 election monitors and observers \u200bto all 50 states in what it called \u200cthe largest Election Day monitoring effort in history. A Justice Department statement identified which jurisdictions within the states would receive monitors and observers. Department \u200bofficials have said priorities include areas with a history \u200bof voter access issues and places with competitive \u2060races that could be targets of voter intimidation. The \u200bTrump administration has taken an increasingly aggressive approach to election oversight, \u200bpressing states for voter-registration data and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}