The U.S. Department of Justice says it will monitor polling sites in Passaic County, New Jersey, after Republicans raised concerns that local elections officials were not providing enough security for mail-in ballots.

The DOJ announced Friday that staff from its Civil Rights Division will be deployed to the North Jersey county for the Nov. 4 election. Passaic has a dense immigrant population and was reliably Democratic until President Donald Trump won the county by 3 points last year. U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the department's goal is to uphold “the highest standards of election integrity” and to ensure a fair and transparent process.

New Jersey Republicans pushed to add cameras and sign-in logs for mail-in ballot storage areas — measures it says are already in use in nea

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