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News Reporting· CBS News Published Aug 18, 2026

Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to midterm polling places

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News Reporting· ABC News

Senator presses Hegseth, Caine for commitment to keep US military out of the midterm elections

Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to confirm that he won’t send troops to polling places during the midterm elections

News Reporting· NBC News

Attorney General Todd Blanche says DOJ may take states’ voter roll fight to Supreme Court

Todd Blanche said there’s a “possibility” that the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to rule on cases in which the federal government’s is trying to gain access to state voter rolls ahead of November’s midterm elections.

News Reporting· The Washington Post

Justice Department plans to send about 1,000 monitors to the polls this fall

The move to send 1,000 poll monitors is likely the largest number under a Republican president, a DOJ official said.