The head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Tuesday urged attorneys and staffers under her supervision to sign up as election monitors, in what appears to be part of a plan to deploy 1,000 monitors to polls in November.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, in an email to Civil Rights Division employees reviewed by NOTUS, said she was seeking attorneys and professional staff to fan out to an unspecified number of polling places around the country on Nov. 3 or work a call center in Washington.
The Justice Department has long sent federal election monitors to watch voting during primaries, midterms and presidential elections, and it’s typical for such internal recruitment memos to go out at this point in the election cycle.