TRUMP DOJ REVEALS IT WILL SEND 1,000 'MONITORS' TO POLLING STATIONS
The number exists as one sentence on television. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, the voter fraud everyone was warned about turned up as a film crew in costume, and poll workers stopped it.
Florida, Alaska and Wyoming vote today, and in November the Justice Department will put roughly a thousand monitors inside American polling places. That figure comes from one place: an interview the head of the department's civil rights division gave Bloomberg television, published Monday. She called it "probably going to be a historic number for a Republican administration." She would not say which jurisdictions get them. She said the department is still deciding.
There is no announcement. No release, no list, no filing. Election lawyers tracking it confirm the department has published nothing.
That matters more than it sounds, because the department has never counted monitors in people. It counts jurisdictions. Biden's Justice Department sent monitors to 86 jurisdictions in 2024 and 64 across 24 states in 2022. Trump's first term sent them to 44 in 2020. In 2018, 35 across 19 states. So a thousand cannot be measured against anything the department has ever said, and a number that can't be compared can't be called excessive.
In July she announced monitors for 15 jurisdictions across Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia, and promised something expanded for the autumn. Where those monitors went is on the record: Detroit, Hamtramck, Lansing and East Lansing, and Democratic areas of Arizona and Minnesota. Michigan's officials said they behaved professionally. Trump this year said Republicans should "nationalize the voting" and "take over the voting."
