Trump plan for 1,000 DOJ election monitors draws lawsuit

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 7 Oct, 16:00 · Archive

The NAACP has sued over Trump administration plans to deploy 1,000 federal election monitors to polling stations.

The NAACP has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's plans to deploy what it describes as 'a historic number' of federal election monitors to polling stations during midterm elections. Harmeet Dhillon, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said she hopes to send 1,000 monitors to observe voting.

The NAACP argues that the plan 'stands to jeopardise' the elections and could 'interfere with the right of voters to participate in the election free from intimidation'. The lawsuit names Dhillon as defendant. No further detail on the legal challenge or the administration's response is provided in the reporting.

How it is being reported

• Trump administration sued over plans to send election monitors to voting sitesNAACP files lawsuit after head of DoJ’s civil rights division says she hopes to send election monitors to polls The Trump administration has been sued over its plans to deploy “a historic number” of election monitors to polling stations during next month’s midterm elections. The bid “stands to jeopardize” the elections and could “interfere with the right of voters to participate in the election free from intimidation”, according to the NAACP, which filed a lawsuit against Harmeet Dhillon, head of the justice department’s civil rights division, who has said she hopes to send 1,000 monitors to…Guardian World · 7 Oct, 15:48
• Trump plan to send 1,000 DOJ monitors to the polls could ‘jeopardize the election,’ NAACP lawsuit warnsDOJ is planning to deploy 1,000 federal agents to observe the polls on Election Day, drawing fears of voter intimidationIndependent World · 6 Oct, 16:20

In this story: NAACP · Trump administration · Harmeet Dhillon · Justice Department

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