DOJ sending 1,000 monitors to polling sites is an "intimidation tactic," voting advocate says
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[0:00] On this election day, the Justice
[0:02] Department is deploying a record number
[0:03] of monitors and observers to polling
[0:05] locations in the US. The Trump
[0:07] administration says 10,000 officials
[0:09] will be sent across all 50 states for
[0:11] the first time in American history. This
[0:13] effort is being coordinated by the DOJ's
[0:15] civil rights division. Sky Perryman
[0:17] joins us now. She is the president and
[0:18] CEO of Democracy Forward. That's a
[0:20] nonprofit legal organization based in
[0:23] Washington. So Sky, uh, you know, we
[0:25] know that there have been DOJ monitors
[0:26] at past elections, but this is pretty
[0:28] big. Uh how do you feel about it? Is it
[0:30] necessary?
[0:32] >> Look, I mean uh poll monitors are
[0:35] supposed to be there to do just that, to
[0:36] really help people exercise their rights
[0:38] under our voting protections in the
[0:40] United States and under the Voting
[0:42] Rights Act. Unfortuna