While election disruptions were minimal, the Department of Justice did deploy a historically high number of election monitors.

Justice Department election monitors sparked alarm Tuesday after New Mexico officials accused them of improperly questioning voters at polling locations, prompting complaints to federal authorities. PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Liz Landers reported that New Mexico’s secretary of state raised concerns about…

Chris Mattei is skeptical that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent election monitors to New Haven on Tuesday just to ensure that Spanish-language voters can access the polls. The post Mattei Monitors DOJ Monitors appeared first on New Haven Independent.

For the first time in U.S. history, the White House has decided to monitor elections across the entire country. The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it had placed roughly 1,000 election monitors and observers in all 50 states. They will be assessing polling places for compliance with federal election…

The Justice Department dispatched roughly 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states, more than triple its last midterm deployment, and didn’t publish the list of sites until Election Day morning. The department’s Civil Rights Division said in a press release Tuesday that it would have “approximately 1,000 election…

The Trump administration informed state and local officials on Oct. 21 that it would send two teams of DOJ monitors to polls in New Haven.

Zachary Denver showed up at Davis Street School at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday not to vote — but to ask voters questions. That was the first reported sighting of a planned Trump administration operation in New Haven. It wasn’t the last. The administration had informed local officials last week that it would send monitors to the…

The U.S. Department of Justice has notified Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas’ office and the City of New Haven that it intends to send federal election monitors to New Haven on Election Day, November 3, according to Thomas. “Connecticut General Statutes 9-236 clearly defines who is permitted inside a polling…

New Haven is the only CT municipality the DOJ plans on sending election monitors to Tuesday, according to a Sec. of the State spokesperson.

The DOJ’s plan has raised alarms due to President Donald Trump’s track record of disputing election results.