{"id":2653973,"date":"2026-09-03T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndoj-set-to-send-army-of-monitors-to-keep-an-eye-on-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:45:35","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndoj-set-to-send-army-of-monitors-to-keep-an-eye-on-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndoj-set-to-send-army-of-monitors-to-keep-an-eye-on-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Set To Send Army Of Monitors To Keep An Eye On Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndoj-set-to-send-army-of-monitors-to-keep-an-eye-on-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2653973&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses concerns about election integrity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, highlighting multiple problematic incidents over recent years, including errors by election officials and restricted observer access.It criticizes local authorities and the Wisconsin Elections Commission for their perceived lack of accountability and transparency, citing acts such as hiding ballot counts behind curtains and blocking observer access, which violate election laws.<\/p>\n<p>The piece emphasizes the deployment of federal election monitors by the Department of Justice (DOJ), noting that such monitors have historically been used by both Republican and Democratic administrations to ensure election integrity. In the 2024 cycle, the DOJ plans to deploy a important number of observers nationwide, wiht some already active in states like Arizona, Massachusetts, and others. Critics, including some Democrats, argue these efforts are politically motivated or unneeded, while supporters see them as vital for transparency and public confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The article also features contrasting views, with figures like Kristen Clarke claiming federal monitors are unwelcome, whereas others, such as activist Scot Mussi, affirm their positive impact and general acceptance in many jurisdictions. Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security has launched investigations into potential election fraud, a move dismissed by some Democratic leaders as partisan.<\/p>\n<p>the article underscores ongoing debates over federal involvement in election oversight, the importance of transparency, and concerns about election law violations in Wisconsin amidst broader national efforts to safeguard electoral processes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Where election integrity goes to die. <\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/20\/hovdes-right-troubling-issues-dogged-milwaukee-on-election-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mighty strange things<\/a> have happened in the Brew City\u2019s election administration over the years, much of it well-documented in the pages of The Federalist. <\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/08\/31\/wisconsin-commission-takes-up-screwy-milwaukee-elections-debacle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest election mess,<\/a> Milwaukee election workers, according to the Milwaukee Election Commission, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >mistakenly downloaded audit log files<\/a> instead of results on five of nine data sticks. The glitch stalled the release of Wisconsin\u2019s August 11 primary election results, including the final tally in a nationally-watched race for the Democrats\u2019 candidate for governor. Interestingly, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who had quit the campaign amid basement level polling numbers only to be <a href=\"https:\/\/pbswisconsin.org\/news-item\/crowley-restarts-2026-bid-for-wisconsin-governor-after-rodriguez-quits-race\/\">dragged ba<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pbswisconsin.org\/news-item\/crowley-restarts-2026-bid-for-wisconsin-governor-after-rodriguez-quits-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">c<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pbswisconsin.org\/news-item\/crowley-restarts-2026-bid-for-wisconsin-governor-after-rodriguez-quits-race\/\">k in<\/a> by the Democratic Party \u201cestablishment,\u201d narrowly defeated state Rep. Francesca Hong, a Madison radical socialist with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/news\/hong-backtracks-from-past-social-media-statements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grudge against Thanksgiving<\/a> and very little chance of winning the general election. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/wisconsin-elections-commission-milwaukee-primary-results-delay\/73571166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feckless Wisconsin Elections Commission <\/a>will once again do nothing to hold the Democrat-led city accountable for the \u201chuman errors\u201d that have shredded election integrity over the past several election cycles. <\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee is the poster-child for the necessity of federal election monitors. There are several other blue cities that have run roughshod over election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The cavalry is coming. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018The More Eyes We Have on Elections\u2019 <\/h2>\n<p>Last month, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/staff-profile\/assistant-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harmeet Dhillon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-17\/doj-plans-to-deploy-1-000-monitors-to-watch-midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> her office will be deploying 1,000 election monitors at polling sites throughout the country in November\u2019s midterm elections. A Department of Justice official tells The Federalist that the monitoring effort could be the largest in DOJ history. <\/p>\n<p>The official did not have details on precisely where the volunteers will be, but some hotspots immediately come to mind. <\/p>\n<p>Monitors already have been serving on the primary election front lines, covering 15 jurisdictions in six states \u2014 Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia. Twelve monitors were present at polls in Boston, New Bedford, and Lowell in Massachusetts\u2019 primary elections earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-conduct-election-monitoring-massachusetts-primary-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> the DOJ. The department has deployed more than 80 monitors at more than 200 polling locations in eight states this primary season. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats have railed against the election integrity initiative, accusing the Trump administration weaponizing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Of course, past Democrat administrations have deployed their share of federal election monitors. In the 2022 midterm election, the Biden DOJ dispatched nearly 300 monitors to polling sites around the country, CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/justice-department-election-monitors-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-monitor-polls-27-states-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 presidential election<\/a>, the DOJ sent 714 people to ensure compliance with federal voting laws 86 jurisdictions in 27 states. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a volunteer and private election lawyer in prior years and some of these jurisdictions are jurisdictions where I know I\u2019ve got personal knowledge of there being problems in the past,\u201d Dhillon <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AAGDhillon\/status\/2074847798340514225?s=20\">told<\/a> conservative talk show host Joe Pags last month. \u201cSo I think it should be a welcome sign in all jurisdictions that we have an eye on things \u2026 The more eyes we have on elections, in my opinion, the better because the more people will be confident in those elections. We all want that as Americans.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>You would think so. But Democrats aren\u2019t real keen on transparency in election administration. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In past administrations, Republican and Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theJusticeDept<\/a> monitored elections to protect election integrity. This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CivilRights?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CivilRights<\/a> Division is sending monitors to 15 jurisdictions to ensure voter confidence in the upcoming primary elections! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CEQ1lSYXYK\">pic.twitter.com\/CEQ1lSYXYK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AAGDhillon\/status\/2074847798340514225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In Milwaukee, elections officials hid the central count ballot tabulation behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/08\/31\/wisconsin-commission-takes-up-screwy-milwaukee-elections-debacle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">black curtain<\/a> during the 2024 presidential elections. Observers could see absentee ballots arriving at the facility, but once inside the black curtain observation was impossible. In the 2025 state Supreme Court election, Milwaukee election officials <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/28\/sources-milwaukee-officials-handle-ballots-in-secret-back-rooms-with-no-observer-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blocked windows<\/a> to the \u201cSecure Ballot Room.\u201d Again, the feckless Wisconsin Elections Commission did nothing to stop the Dem-led city from cutting off public access to the vote count \u2014 a clear <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/statutes\/statutes\/7\/i\/41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">violation of state election law<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018The Monitors are Welcome Here\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats and leftist \u201cvoting rights\u201d groups have been busy pushing a narrative that federal election monitoring by the Trump administration is somehow unprecedented. It\u2019s not. Democrat and Republican administrations have deployed election monitors for decades.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/crt\/former-assistant-attorney-general-kristen-clarke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kristen Clarke<\/a>, who served as assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division in the Biden administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/videos\/resist-fmr-doj-official-urges-004405259.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the receptive MS Now crew last month that there is \u201cno statutory justification for sending federal election monitors inside polls.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I led the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, jurisdictions would give us consent where we had a good-faith basis to be on the ground helping to ensure good-faith access,\u201d said the far-left attorney who serves as NAACP general counsel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am confident that members of the public are not calling the Justice Department for help and that they are not wanted or needed inside polling sites across this country,\u201d said Clarke, a highly partisan practitioner of leftist lawfare who herself had a run-in with the law in 2006 that she <a href=\"https:\/\/heartlandernews.com\/dojs-kristen-clarke-asked-ex-husband-to-say-she-wasnt-an-abuser-during-confirmation-ex-alleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opted not to disclose<\/a> during her Senate confirmation process. <\/p>\n<p>Clarke is wrong. Members of the public have indeed called on the Department of Justice to monitor polls sites. California citizens sought assistance last year during California\u2019s Prop 50 ballot initiative. The measure asked voters to allow the state legislature to redraw congressional district lines to the Democrats\u2019 broader advantage. California\u2019s extended election days and universal mail-in ballots have made a mockery of election integrity. <\/p>\n<p>Conservative activist Scot Mussi, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/azfree.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona Free Enterprise Club,<\/a> said he hasn\u2019t seen any resistance or real opposition to federal monitors at polling sites. The Justice Department sent federal officials to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-announces-monitoring-polling-sites-three-arizona-counties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monitor Arizona\u2019s July primary elections<\/a> in three counties \u2014 Maricopa, Apache, and Pima. <\/p>\n<p>Mussi said it\u2019s usually activist groups on the left that oppose federal monitors from Republican administrations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, the monitors are welcome here and a net positive,\u201d he told The Federalist this week in a phone interview. \u201cThere\u2019s usually no opposition from the general public.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mussi said federal election monitors have long served at Arizona poll sites, particularly on Indian reservations and other vulnerable jurisdictions. Maricopa County has a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/07\/a-battle-over-election-administration-is-brewing-in-arizonas-largest-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">history<\/a> of irregularities and incompetence in its troubled election system. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/archives\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-monitor-polls-27-states-compliance-federal-voting-rights-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent monitors to four Arizona counties<\/a> in the 2024 presidential election. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018An Ongoing Priority\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s a matter of law. The Civil Rights Division\u2019s Voting Section is charged with enforcing federal statutes, including the Voting Rights Act, National Voter Registration Act, Help America Vote Act, Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and Civil Rights Acts. The goal is to ensure everyone who is eligible to vote is able to. That also means protecting against the negation of votes by noncitizens and others who are prohibited from voting in U.S. elections. <\/p>\n<p>Clarke, the former assistant attorney general in the Biden administration, is urging local elections officials to \u201cresist\u201d the DOJ\u2019s legal right to send election monitors. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this Justice Department comes knocking at your door, tell them you\u2019re not needed,\u201d she told MS Now. <\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/02\/report-dhs-launches-voter-fraud-surge-probes-in-nine-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> this week, the Department of Homeland Security has launched a coordinated investigative \u201csurge\u201d targeting potential election fraud. Investigators will conduct the surge through mid-October in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin.\u00a0The initiative will be directed by Homeland Security Investigations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHSI is committed to restoring integrity to our election systems and ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders,\u201d a DHS spokesperson said Tuesday in an email responding to The Federalist\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a far-left Democrat, called the DHS investigations \u201ca joke.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s another thing that Trump is doing to make it look like there\u2019s all sorts of problems that are not problems in Wisconsin. And frankly, he needs to stay out of it because voting is a state issue and not a federal issue,\u201d Evers, one of several Democrats to have won an election after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/scott-walker-defeated-in-wisconsin-in-narrow-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">late-night Milwaukee ballot dump,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/wi\/milwaukee\/news\/2026\/09\/01\/wisconsin-voter-fraud-dhs-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>state media this week. <\/p>\n<p>There clearly are plenty of problems with election administration in portions of swing state Wisconsin, problems Evers and fellow Democrats have tried to sweep under the rug.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice\u2019s Civil Rights Division has an important role to play in making sure federal elections are being conducted securely and transparently. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection monitoring is an ongoing priority for this office,\u201d Dhillon\u00a0 said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-conduct-election-monitoring-florida-and-wyoming-primary-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. \u201cNondiscriminatory monitoring ensures all elections remain free, fair, and accessible to all.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee election chaos: errors and secrecy persist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2653974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-1.41.03-AM-1024x578.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7076,44358,6571,32690,65700],"class_list":["post-2653973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-doj","tag-election-monitors","tag-elections","tag-government-transparency","tag-voting-oversight"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-03-at-1.41.03-AM-1024x578.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653977,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653973\/revisions\/2653977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}