“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 ...

ST. LOUIS — UPDATE: A U.S. District judge denied Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft's request for a temporary restraining order against the Department of Justice over poll watching plans.

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 ...

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 ...

Federal judges denied two states’ requests to bar the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day. Missouri and Texas ...

and poll watchers who have completed state mandated training. Paxton’s lawsuit references the approved list and points out that the federal election monitors do not fit any of these criteria.

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.