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The U.S. Department of Justice will send some 1,000 election monitors to polling places this November in order to boost voter confidence in election integrity, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said.
“We just did it in the primary, and we’re going to do it to the tune of approximately 1000 election monitors in the, in the November election, and this is just something that DOJ does,” Dhillon told Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power” podcast.
Asked where the election monitors would be deployed, Dhillon said the department is “still formulating our final list,” but noted there may be polling locations “where there may be language issues, the places where there may have been access of disability rights issues, places where there may be voter fraud issues that we’ve seen.”
Regarding voter fraud concerns, Dhillon said there have already been “some prosecutions,” and that others are “in the pipeline of people who voted illegally who should not have, and we see a problem, frankly, with some election officials refusing to clean up their voter rolls and knowingly allowing non-citizens, for example, to stay on the voter rolls.”
“This is a federal crime, and so we reminded people of that,” Dhillon asserted. “But overall, the goal is not so much going after one voter here or there; it is increasing all American citizens’ confidence in our elections, and that requires us to enforce our laws.”
The AAG added that American voters’ sense of confidence in the nation’s elections remains “a high priority of this White House.”
“It’s something that I frequently meet with other agency heads on – and you know Department of Homeland Security is involved in it, the Postal Service is involved in it – and we really want every American to get out there and vote and feel confident in the outcome,” Dhillon said. “And over the years, we’ve had Republicans, and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams, both have come out and said, you know, they didn’t accept the outcome or they didn’t like what happened in their particular election.”
“So, this is a bipartisan issue, and it’s a bipartisan problem,” she said. “And we want people from both sides to be able to accept those results.”
The Bloomberg podcast host hovered on the issue of “non-citizens being on voter rolls – it’s one thing for them to be registered, it’s another for them to actually go to the polls and vote,” she asserted and then asked Dhillon, “Can you give us a sense, in terms of scale, how many documented cases there have been of a non-citizen actually casting a vote?”
But Dhillon immediately corrected her, replying “Well, first of all, both of those are crimes if they knowingly – “
“But sometimes it can be inadvertently, like in the New Jersey case” – the host protested.
“It’s not a crime if the state made a mistake,” Dhillon continued. “But it’s a crime if you register to vote when you’re not a citizen to vote in a federal election. New Jersey itself has admitted hundreds of cases, and I think the scope was actually much larger of non-citizen voting. And these are people who flagged themselves, according to New Jersey, ‘Hi, I’m not a citizen,’ and then they went ahead and voted. And so, we don’t know the scale of this problem because two-thirds of the states are refusing to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s efforts to help them clean up their voter rolls under the Help America Vote Act (NVRA).”
Nevertheless, in the states that have cooperated with the DOJ, Dhillon reported “there are hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls, and there are tens of thousands of people who are not citizens on the voter rolls.”
On Tuesday the DOJ announced election monitoring at polling sites for both the Florida and Wyoming primary elections.
“Election monitoring is an ongoing priority for this office,” Dhillon said in the department’s announcement. “Nondiscriminatory monitoring ensures all elections remain free, fair, and accessible to all.”
According to the announcement, the DOJ monitored polls in Miami-Dade County, Florida, “with approximately four Civil Rights Division attorneys” and in Laramie County, Wyoming, “with two Civil Rights Division attorneys.”
“Thus far the DOJ has deployed over 75 monitors across five states and over 200 polling locations this primary season,” the department observed. “By comparison, during the 2022 midterms the DOJ sent monitors to nine states.”
Nonprofit watchdog organization Judicial Watch announced Wednesday afternoon a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit has forced the release of documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), in which “election system vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems” were identified by the intelligence community, yet were “withheld” from the American people.
“In internal messages, ODNI staff members detail concerns over politicization of election security investigations, vote counting inaccuracies from electronic voting machines, and the potential for foreign interference in elections,” Judicial Watch stated, noting that, during an April 2025 White House cabinet meeting, former DNI Tulsi Gabbard said, “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast.”
Referring to President Donald Trump’s announcement in July of the release of “newly declassified documents from intelligence agencies regarding election integrity concerns,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton urged the administration “to release any and all documents under law about its find on electronic voting machine vulnerabilities. Our democracy may be at stake.”
The DOJ invites questions, complaints, or requests for election monitoring in a particular jurisdiction, via contact with the Voting Section at [email protected].
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