Plans have been made for the U.S. Department of Justice to send out 1,000 poll watchers to observe the 2026 midterm elections as the states run them.
Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general, confirms they will be watching for issues like barriers to vote for people with disabilities as well as evidence of election fraud.
“This is something that DOJ does,” she confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg. “We just did it in the primary. We will do it to the tune of approximately 1,000 election monitors in the November election.”
A report by the Washington Examiner said the role is to observe, not interfere.
The goal is a fair election.
Dhillon did confirm the deployment probably will be a record number for a Republican administration.
"We respect state law," she said. "We reach out to the states. If their perimeter is 150 yards, we respect that."
During Joe Biden’s time in the White House, the DOJ sent monitors to 86 jurisdictions for the 2024 vote and 64 for the 2022 midterms, the Washington Post said.
The DOJ sent monitors to 44 jurisdictions during the 2020 election.
Actually, the work already has begun as the Civil Right Division dispatched advisories to officials in all 50 states weeks ago providing instructions for maintenance of accurate vote registration lists.
“I just want every citizen at the end of the day … to accept the outcome of our elections because they have been run cleanly,” Dhillon earlier confirmed to the Examiner.
“We're not here for any particular candidate or outcome. We're here to make sure that when the primary is done, people accept the outcome because it was done correctly.”
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