The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send about 1,000 monitors to polling places for the November midterm elections. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon says the monitors are intended to observe voting.
The department describes the effort as unprecedented in scale for a Republican administration, with one DOJ official telling The Washington Post it is likely the largest number of monitors sent under a Republican president. Bloomberg similarly characterizes the deployment as a historic figure for the administration. Both outlets report that the monitors will be deployed during the fall elections, with the exact operational details not fully described in the accounts provided.
