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Trump’s DOJ Will Deploy Election Monitors in Six States This Summer

The Trump administration plans on sending election monitors to 15 jurisdictions in six states—four of which are deep blue, with the remaining being swing states—for the remaining primary elections this summer.

Monitors will be placed in Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon made the announcement in a video posted on social media Tuesday.

“The Department of Justice, like it has in Republican and Democrat administrations in the past, is sending election monitors to places where there have been problems with the integrity of elections,” Dhillon later said on the Joe Pags Show, a conservative radio show, before reading the list of states and the specific areas that would be watched.

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AA5B
lemmy.world

I’m surprised he’s going after Massachusetts like this. I mean, I imagine it’s spite over humane treatment of immigrants and resistance to interfering with education, but come on. We’re so blue that no amount of voter intimidation could possibly turn our vote red

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empireOfLove2
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hmm, mostly swing states he lost in 2020.

Definitely going to just "observe" and not actively interfere with elections. No way no how.

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reluctant_squidd
lemmy.ca

ICE just parked around the corner waiting for anyone that fits their “parameters” to try and vote, no doubt.

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shredderfood.net

I know I'm safe, I'm elmers glue white, straight, and male. Unless I wear a Harris/Walz T-Shirt, they'll never know I'm voting liberal. ;-)

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hydrashok
sh.itjust.works

“The Department of Justice, like it has in Republican and Democrat administrations in the past, is sending election monitors to places where there have been problems with the integrity of elections,” Dhillon later said

[evidence needed]

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ShredderFeeder
shredderfood.net

Virginia here, looks like I'm going to be walking into the voting booth with my camera in my shirt pocket recording.... Just in case....

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prolereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Careful, I think recording in those areas (x feet from the polls) is illegal.

Not saying don't do it, but just keep that in mind. Especially when we're talking about people who will be looking for any reason whatsoever to stop certain people from voting.

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shredderfood.net

I posted a chart of the restrictions by swing state.. helpful information...most of them seem to say "as long as it doesn't infringe on privacy or can be constituted as voter intimidation it's ok"

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