DOJ to send election monitors to 120+ counties

newsNov 3, 202621423

The Justice Department is deploying federal election monitors nationwide to more than 120 counties and cities, including teams focused on Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park, and Brooklyn Center. Hennepin County officials denied the DOJ’s request to place monitors inside Minneapolis-area polling places and instead will require federal staff to remain outside the 100-foot boundary set by Minnesota Statute § 204C.06, the county attorney’s office said. The county confirmed the same interior-access restriction was applied during the August primary. DOJ monitors are expected to be plainclothes staff who may attempt voluntary interviews with voters as they exit polling locations. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said both Hennepin and Ramsey counties declined the DOJ request and that his office and the Attorney General’s Office will observe the federal monitors. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office will review reports of threats, harassment, or intimidation directed at voters or election workers and prosecute if appropriate, noting the county is committed to ensuring free, safe, and fair elections. The 100-foot rule leaves the DOJ without automatic authority to observe polling-place interiors in the state’s largest county.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social

Lansing, Dearborn, Flint (and everywhere else): you do not have to talk to DOJ monitors. Report it to your AG. They are not allowed to interfere with voters.

Hayley Harding O @hayleyharding.com
DOJ monitors in Dearborn and Flint have been acting outside their allowed roles, per today's MDOS call.
Monitors were asking poll workers for copies of training materials in Dearborn.
MI has been in conversation with the DOU, and the
DOJ will be reaching out to the poll workers in question. 1/3
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Hayley Harding • @hayleyharding.com • 1h
Kim Bush, from the Michigan AG's office, said the state doesn't "have any major concerns."
She notes that concerns have also popped up in Lansing. 2/3
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@hayleyharding.com • 1h
To be clear, these are reports. 3/3
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722h ago

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Vote Kotek If You Want To Survive3

Gosh what a wild “”coincidence”” this is, eh?

Hayley Harding

@hayleyharding.com

Of course I have updated our live blog with this video, with a dispatch from Dearborn AND with comment from the DOJ re: monitors

1042h ago

California Dreamin’… 😎

@jerasikehorn.bsky.social

TRUMP IS NOW SENDING 1,000+ “ELECTION MONITORS” TO POLLING PLACES ACROSS THE COUNTRY… LET THE CHEATING BEGIN!! 😎🇺🇸✨

463h ago

Pru B. 🦋2

To what end? They can’t do anything. They won’t change anyone’s vote. No one will be intimidated.

joe4zu.bsky.social1

Trumps election monitors have all been sent to blue districts.

What eva1

When you position it this way you may scare older voters who don’t want the harassment. Everyone - these monitors are nothing to worry about. Go…vote…save your country from…from these monitors!!!

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost.com

The Justice Department released a list of more than 120 counties and cities where it is sending election monitors. Here’s what election officials — and The Post — are watching as Americans vote when it comes to how safe and secure this election will be:

433h ago

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Cersei Trannister 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🦋5

the thing is that they're sending out 1000 people to try and "monitor" 14000 polling places representing 110 million people. Good luck

Philip Bump

@pbump.com

I wrote about the "election monitors" over the weekend. (The answer to the headline is "because Trump wants people to think there's lots of fraud.") www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

422h ago

Sarah Taber

@sarahtaber.bsky.social

Fun update on "DOJ is sending monitors to the polls!" rumor: Some friends who were poll greeting in Alamance Co had one come by. Here's how it went. "But he just came up, asked how it was, as we were paul greeton[sp], have we seen anything weird, and then they left." Scintillating stuff, folks

363h ago

Sarah Taber7

And the DoJ monitor here happened to be local figure Dan Bishop. He notably LOST the Attorney General race here in NC in '24. Now works for the DoJ as an "interim US attorney" for middle district of NC.

Kent Lind2

I'm guessing this is mostly that Trump demanded the DOJ send out "monitors" And so a bunch of low-level bureaucrats are having to put down whatever other things they were working on to go stand around in some polling places long enough that they can check off that they did it, then go to Starbucks.

Larry Colvin

@larrycolvin.bsky.social

DOJ election monitors target Democratic strongholds, Black voters #Blues www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

113h ago

Los Angeles Times

@latimes.com

The Justice Department sent a last-minute surge of election monitors into Los Angeles Tuesday morning, hours after losing the latest legal tug-of-war over California’s 20,000 contested ballots. www.latimes.com/california/s...

photo of a man voting with yellow voter booths. headline reads: Feds deploy election monitors to L.A. after last-minute legal wrangling over ballots. Los Angeles times

102h ago

Jackie Llanos

@llanosjackie.bsky.social

NEW @washingtonsun.com analysis: DOJ's expanded effort to send monitors to polling places is landing in Democratic-leaning areas, with a focus on counties with higher immigrant populations and minority voters. www.washingtonsun.com/legal/poll-m...

62h ago

Scott Horton

@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

DOJ "Monitors" seem to understand that their function is to attempt to disrupt voting any way they can.

61h ago

Sara Wilson

@sarawilson.bsky.social

It’s Election Day, and I’m at the Just Vote Colorado command center, where volunteers are fielding calls. Lots of typical questions about how to replace lost ballots and where to vote, but Aly Belknap with Colorado Common Cause said they have had many reports of DOJ monitors in Adams County too.

63h ago

Mayor Karen Bass

@mayor.lacity.gov

Today, on Election Day, the Department of Justice announced it is ‘engaging in its largest monitoring effort in history,’ sending election monitors to all 50 states and specifically naming Los Angeles.

72h ago

Mayor Karen Bass2

This is a baseless and dangerous attack from the Department of Justice on how states run their own elections and an attempt to intimidate voters into staying home.

Shaun Griswold

@shaun505.bsky.social

Gov candidate Deb Haaland on DOJ monitors in NM: “It's no secret that President Trump has been trying to commandeer voting lists and voting rolls and threatening people with having federal agents at polling locations. Everybody cares about election protection.” www.buffalosfire.com/election-202...

32h ago

Trump Action Tracker

@trumpactiontracker.bsky.social

The Justice Department announced its largest-ever election monitoring operation, deploying observers across all 50 states, with approximately three times as many monitors as at the previous midterm elections. Reuters found that more than two-thirds of the sele... [link] TAT: [Undermining democracy]

42h ago

Ray Beckerman

@raybeckerman.bsky.social

In about-face, DOJ says it has ‘no problem’ with block on federal agents as poll monitors www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

42h ago

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washingtonpost.comElection 2026 live updates: Midterm voters to decide control of Congress in Texas, Michigan and more thegatewaypundit.comHennepin County Bars DOJ Election Monitors from Inside Minneapolis Polling Places, Forces Them to Stay 100 Feet Outside on Election Day * The Gateway Pundit * by Cassandra MacDonald hpl.nycTrump Deploys Election Monitors - Hunters Point Ledger

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DOJ to send election monitors to 120+ counties

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