Updated · The Atlanta Journal Constitution · Oct 24
DOJ to Station Election Monitors in 6 Georgia Counties as Democrats Question November Role
Updated
Updated · The Atlanta Journal Constitution · Oct 24
DOJ to Station Election Monitors in 6 Georgia Counties as Democrats Question November Role
3 articles · Updated · The Atlanta Journal Constitution · Oct 24
Summary
Six Georgia counties — Bibb, Cobb, Chatham, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett — were told the Justice Department plans to place election monitors there on Election Day.
The department said the monitors are meant to check compliance with election law and protect voters' rights, calling such deployments a decades-long routine practice.
Those notices still unsettled Democratic officials and some local election administrators because the counties are Democratic strongholds and the Trump administration has pushed for greater federal control over elections.
Chatham County officials sought a meeting with DOJ to clarify what monitors can do, while the department said observers must not interfere with voting, ballot counting or election administration.