DOJ Press Release Says It Will Monitor Elections in All 50 States for the First Time, With About 1,000 Monitors and Observers

The Justice Department’s Office of Public Affairs released “DOJ To Monitor Elections in All 50 States for First Time” on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. DOJ said it was “engaging in its largest monitoring effort in history—with approximately 1,000 election monitors and observers deployed, and, for the first time, in all 50 states.” It said monitors “will include personnel from the Division, other DOJ divisions/components, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management.”

The release ends with a state-by-state list introduced as “We intend to monitor or observe in the following jurisdictions:”. The list is a statement of intent, not a record of who attended. See the cascade-research note tgie-epilogue-monitor-list for the parsed list and timing.

Earlier DOJ notices to individual jurisdictions: 2026-10-20–doj-civil-rights-division-notifies-jurisdictions-of-nov-3-monitors-indiana-pennsylvania-georgia-maine-no-public-list. Hennepin’s refusal for the primary: 2026-08-10–hennepin-county-denies-doj-request-staff-access-monitor-polling-places-primary-doj-agrees-stay-outside-100-feet.