NEW: DOJ announced Friday that it will send election monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey

[In It to Win It]

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-administration-to-monitor-voting-in-california-and-new-jersey/

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it will send election monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey — a move that Democrats and democracy advocates warned may be a potential step toward the Trump administration seizing control of voting.

The administration’s consistent use of DOJ to advance President Donald Trump’s political and personal interests, along with the locations chosen by DOJ, are raising serious concerns that the move aims to advance Trump’s bid to increase his power over elections.

Already in recent months, voting rights advocates and leading Democrats have warned that the administration is laying the groundwork to deploy troops or law enforcement to the polls in key cities next year and in 2028.

Friday’s announcement has intensified those fears.

NEW: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it will send election monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey — a move that Democrats and democracy advocates warned may be a potential step toward the Trump administration seizing control of voting.

— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T20:38:54.027Z

[Lovie777]

1. UGH..............

ICE will be there too.

[Silent Type]

2. Fortunately Democrats have their own monitors, but might have to develop rapid response legal teams if

trump’s henchmen try anything.

[bluestarone]

13. way things are going, the Democratic monitors will be ARRESTED just

before the election.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Performative nonsense. Directing attention away fr shaky red state elections & away fr Epstein Ballroom. . .nt

[Falconry]

4. There is time.

Either vote by mail or better yet, take your completed ballot to a drop box. These Feds have no business inserting themselves into our state elections but we certainly have the capability to minimize their nonsense.

[Chasstev365]

5. To counter this intimidation and to piss off the Right;

California and New Jersey should ask for United Nations election monitors.

On a good note, Trump may be tipping his hand well before the 2026 mid-terms.

[SunSeeker]

6. I don't know about NJ but pretty much every Democrat votes by mail in CA.

It's the conspiratorial Republicans who don't trust mail in ballots and tend to vote in person, so they will welcome that crew.

[ITAL]

14. I like voting in person

I completely trust mail-in voting, but it feels more like an event to me than if i do it while watching a game on TV. My wife usually makes me get dressed up to go vote and everything - lol.

[Klarkashton]

7. And just what are they going to monitor?

What horseshit.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. IceGoons with clipboards

States should fight this in court.

[lisa58]

9. NJ Voter...already voted

NJ let’s you know when your ballot was mailed, when it was received and after the election: that it was counted

[gab13by13]

10. I thought the states ran their own elections?

[DFW]

11. But, of course Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia never need ANY oversight

Other than what Republicans deem necessary with no one else around, right?

[Jersey Devil]

12. You can't just hang around the polls in NJ

You have to get credentials to approach anyone inside or within 100 feet of a polling place if you are not there to vote. If these "monitors" interfere at all they will be,ushered out by local police.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. It will certainly suppress the vote.

[moondust]

16. Maybe all 50 states?

Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-23T20:36:59.564Z

National Guard thugs scaring voters away from polling places? Seizing ballots and voting machines? Something else?

[intheflow]

17. Potential step?

Naw, it’s a confident stride forward in urinating on We the People. 🤬🤬🤬

[kimbutgar]

18. Most Californians have received ballots and mailed and turned them in. MYsekf and my son have mailed in the ballots

And they’ve been received and counted. Only a few like going to vote on Election Day. My husband is waiting until then and they’ll have the hardest time denying him his vote.

[AntiFascist]

19. Counter with state-sponsored monitors...simple n/t