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Politics● LowOct 5 · Oct 5, 2026, 6:47 PM

Blanche defends DOJ’s plan to send 1,000 monitors to polls on Election Day

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hill · North America

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) plan to send 1,000 election monitors to polling places on Election Day. The federal government has monitored elections since the 1960s and the DOJ will assure federal law is being enforced properly, Blanche told Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.” “They’re not going…

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