Federal election monitors swarm California to face off with Democrat watchers as voting war turns toxic

Federal officials and Democratic groups will descend upon California in the coming days to monitor the state’s elections amid an intensifying partisan feud over voting.The Department of Justice plans to deploy 1,000 election monitors across the country, including in California, for “routine election monitoring the department has done for decades,” per a spokesperson, as partisan and third-party groups ready volunteer armies to keep watch on polling places.“We will have around 1,000 monitors in counties throughout the United States, but we will not share the full list until Election Day.

Every monitor will merely observe and report any potential violations of federal law to the Department, which will be reviewed after Election Day,” the DOJ spokesperson said.A collection of watchdog groups and political volunteers are also planning to deploy poll watchers in what could amount to unprecedented scrutiny on the midterm elections.

Among those are the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee, both of which are helping to train poll monitors, according to Associated Press.Jane Kleeb, vice chair of the DNC, told the outlet it’s tapped former intelligence officials to monitor online misinformation around the election.“We’ve never done this before,” Kleeb said.

But “we’ve never had to deal with the president of the United States saying that he may seize ballots, put ICE agents outside polling locations and other kinds of very clear direct threats to the voting process.”The California Democratic Party’s Voter Protection Team is recruiting poll watchers and volunteer attorneys to monitor the Nov.3 election, according to its website.

State Democratic parties have roughly 10,000 volunteers to observe polling places and report potentially concerning actions by federal agents, per AP.Likewise, the The Republican National Committee said it plans to deploy “election integrity deputy state directors” in 22 states, among them Ar...