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Source: theguardian.com

<p>NAACP files lawsuit after head of DoJ’s civil rights division says she hopes to send election monitors to polls</p><p>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.</p><p>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 href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.297278/gov.uscourts.dcd.297278.1.0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">a lawsuit</a> against Harmeet Dhillon, head of the justice department’s civil rights division, who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/midterms-trump-election-monitors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">has said</a> she hopes to send 1,000 monitors to midterm polling sites in November.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-doj-election-monitor-lawsuit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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