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DOJ to send Election Day monitors to Ada County, Idaho officials say
Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane said the Justice Department will put two monitor teams in Ada County on Nov. 3, the Idaho Capital Sun reported, as part of a 50-state deployment of about 1,000 monitors.
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The Trump administration will send federal election monitors to Ada County, Idaho, on Election Day next week, Secretary of State Phil McGrane confirmed to the Idaho Capital Sun1.
McGrane, a Republican, said the Justice Department notified him and the Ada County Clerk's Office that two teams will be in the state's largest county on Nov. 31.
Clerk Trent Tripple, also a Republican, said about six monitors who live in Idaho will be stationed near polling places but not inside them1.
A department spokesperson told the paper the monitors are doing routine election monitoring the department has done for decades, must not interfere with voting, and will report possible federal-law issues for review after Election Day1.
McGrane said the work includes checking access for voters with disabilities and that he remembered similar visits under President Barack Obama1.
The Capital Sun said the Ada County visit sits inside a Justice Department plan to send about 1,000 monitors to all 50 states, compared with 24 states in 2022 under President Joe Biden1.
McGrane said he was not worried about the expansion1.