Federal monitors to descend on 2 blue states as Trump DOJ pursues ‘election integrity’
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is planning to send federal election monitors to California and New Jersey next month after receiving requests from state Republican officials.
The Justice Department announced it would deploy monitors to Passaic County, New Jersey, as well as Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside, and Fresno counties in California. Federal authorities stated their goal is to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.”
“Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process, and this Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards of election integrity,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told The Associated Press in a statement.
The Guardian described this move as the “latest salvo” in Republicans’ ongoing “preoccupation with election integrity,” noting that this follows years during which Donald Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election and falsely criticized mail-in voting as being rife with fraud. The report added that Democrats fear the new administration might attempt to gain an upper hand in next year’s midterms through similarly unfounded allegations of fraud.
“In recent elections, we have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results of the election,” wrote California Republican chair Corrin Rankin.
Both states are set to hold elections with significant implications. California voters will decide on a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment that would authorize the use of new congressional district maps for the 2026 through 2030 election cycles. This measure responds directly to Texas’s mid-cycle redistricting, which was aimed at bolstering Republican control of the House. The California amendment seeks to counterbalance this by redrawing five GOP-held districts to be more favorable to Democrats.
Meanwhile, New Jersey voters will cast ballots for governor, lieutenant governor, and all 80 seats in the state’s General Assembly.
https://www.rawstory.com/california-election/
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