By Basant El-Faramawy
The U.S. Department of Justice will send election monitors to all 50 states for the first time in the nation's history, expanding federal oversight of voting procedures.
Unprecedented Federal Deployment
The decision represents a historic expansion of the department's election monitoring program, which previously covered a smaller number of jurisdictions.
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