"The Trump administration announced Friday that it would send monitors to five counties, including Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern and Fresno for the Nov. 4 special election. The Justice Department said in a news release that it would send monitors to polling places and to offices of registrars of voters "to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.""
"President Donald Trump has claimed there's widespread voter fraud in California, where 81% of ballots are mailed in. He reiterated his position as recently as Sunday on his Truth Social account. Bonta said Monday that voter fraud is extremely rare in California, and Secretary of State Shirley Weber says on her website that mail-in ballots provide more election security, not less."
"Bonta said the election monitors are designed to bolster the president's claim of election fraud and to sow fear among citizen immigrant voters. The attorney general promised to monitor the monitors. "Of course there will be observers of the election monitors - so-called election monitors - that the DOJ is sending. They will not be allowed to do things that they are not allowed to do," he said. "They can watch and observe like everybody else.""
The Justice Department will send monitors to five California counties — Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern and Fresno — for the Nov. 4 special election, deploying observers at polling places and registrars' offices to ensure transparency, ballot security and federal law compliance. The deployment responded to a California Republican Party request alleging past voting irregularities. California Attorney General Rob Bonta expressed concern over motives, saying monitors arrive in abnormal times and pledging to oversee their conduct. President Trump has alleged widespread voter fraud in a largely mail-in voting state, while state officials maintain fraud is extremely rare and mail ballots increase security.
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