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Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis and Sam Levine in New York

Voting rights experts skeptical over Trump pledge of 1,000 election monitors

a person walks toward voting booths
Early voting in the New York City mayoral election in Manhattan, New York City, on 27 October 2025. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Former officials and voting rights experts have expressed skepticism over a pledge by the Trump administration to dispatch 1,000 monitors across the country to scrutinize November’s US midterm elections.

While the Department of Justice (DoJ) has expressed hope that the operation will be the largest in its history, its plan raised questions over its ability to recruit so many people – and what they would do.

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