“To secure elections, Missouri exercised that traditional authority by enacting a law that strictly limits who, besides ...

The only location in Missouri it is sending poll monitors to is St. Louis, which in January 2021 reached a settlement with ...

Missouri’s lawsuit argued that the Justice Department’s plan to send poll monitors on Tuesday amounted to a “last-minute” attempt to “displace state election authorities,” Reuters reports. DOJ counsel ...

Republican led-states seeking to block Justice Department election monitors from standing outside polling places aren’t finding success. A federal judge late Monday denied Missouri’s effort to ...

Both states are among the 27 that the US Justice Department (DOJ) said it would send staff out to monitor at voting locations, as it has done regularly during national elections.

Officials in Missouri also banned DOJ monitors in 2022. During the 2020 election, the Justice Department under then-President Donald Trump sent poll monitors to 44 jurisdictions in 18 states.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, in a lawsuit filed on Monday accused the department of making an 11th-hour plan to "displace state election authorities" by sending poll monitors ...

“To secure elections, Missouri exercised that traditional authority by enacting a law that strictly limits who, besides voters, can be present in a polling location. Poll monitors employed by DOJ are ...

The Missouri lawsuit accuses the Justice Department of making an 11th hour plan that intends to "displace state election authorities" by sending poll monitors on Tuesday to locations throughout St ...