LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Department of Justice announced on Friday that it will monitor polls in six heavily Latino counties in New Jersey and California during elections held on Nov. 4. The announcement comes as concerns mount about how the Trump administration may seek to interfere with and undermine U.S. elections. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon will oversee the federal monitoring of elections in six counties in New Jersey and California on Nov. 4. “We welcome transparency in our elections, but U.S. DOJ’s presence is completely unnecessary,” the press office for California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in an email. The Trump administration, however, is openly opposed to the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Division has inverted the original intent of civil rights law to make supposed anti-white discrimination its priority.
