At select polling places across the country, 1,000 federal election monitors will be dispatched to ensure election integrity.
At select polling places around the country, 1,000 federal election monitors will be dispatched for the purpose of ensuring election integrity, with additional "special monitors” planned to observe voting machines, including recording serial numbers and security seals.
In an interview on September 21 with Just the News, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, said, "This is going to be the biggest DOJ election observer effort in history and I’m so excited to lead that effort.”
The Department of Justice has already sent letters to 29 states and Washington, D.C., instructing election officials to hold onto voter registration records from 2024.
These letters were sent, despite multiple court challenges which have prevented Trump's Justice Department from accessing that information.
Still, the DOJ has pushed forward and has found a handful of examples of people breaking election law, though nothing has been widespread.
During a September 22 news conference, Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter provided details of a crime carried out in Utah.
As alleged in the indictment, the defendant, then a letter carrier for the Postal Service in Utah, destroyed over 300 mail-in ballots that were meant to be delivered to residents for the June 23rd primary."
He added, "This Department of Justice is working to ensure that our elections are more secure than ever before and that anyone who commits a crime that violates the integrity of our elections will be brought to justice."
The effort has been expanded to include action by the Pentagon.
Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a directive vowing to use the military to fight foreigners who meddle in U.S. elections.
In it, he directed U.S. Cyber Command to use its existing authorities, capabilities and competencies in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security to counter potential cyber threats from foreign actors targeting our elections."
As President Donald Trump continues to insist people who shouldn't be voting have been.
Trump “we want voter ID. We want proof of citizenship. We want honesty in our elections. We want honesty in our country.”
Critics call it a coordinated effort of voter suppression at a time when Trump’s approval rating is plummeting.
In an appearance Saturday on MS Now, Skype Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward, said,
'This administration is just really grasping at straws out of desperation given that people are rejecting his agenda."
A new Wall Street Journal poll found his job approval just dropped to 37%, the lowest of any President heading into the midterm elections.
Congress actually passed a law in 2024 that deals specifically with election observers at polling sites. Under the law those observers are permitted to watch all stages of the election process but may not interfere with the conduct of the election and may not handle ballots or election equipment.
