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Why the Justice Department is sending monitors to ensure voting rights in 24 states

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The DOJ deployed monitors to 64 jurisdictions across 24 states ahead of Tuesday's elections to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws — a routine practice, but one occurring amid heightened alarm from civil rights groups and the government about potential voter intimidation at polling places and ballot boxes.

Monitors are typically lawyers from the DOJ civil rights division and U.S. attorney's offices — not law enforcement officers — enforcing laws including the Voting Rights Act and National Voter Registration Act.