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BREAKING Politics · 18:25
US Justice Department sends about 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states; judge sets strict limits
The US Justice Department is deploying about 1,000 election monitors and observers on Election Day, 3 November, and for the first time in all 50 states, which it calls the largest monitoring effort in its history. The night before, federal judge Reggie Walton refused an NAACP request to block the programme but ordered that the monitors must not be sworn law enforcement officers, must not be armed or in uniform, cannot make arrests and must not speak to voters inside polling places.