SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday that the state will send its own observers to monitor federal election monitors from the U.S. Department of Justice during next week’s special election on Proposition 50.

Bonta made the announcement during a virtual press conference with voting rights advocates on Monday, following news that the DOJ plans to send federal monitors to polling places in five counties — Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside — at the request of the California Republican Party.

"There will be observers of the election monitors — so-called election monitors that the DOJ is sending," Bonta said. He added that it’s still being determined who exactly the state will deploy to oversee the federal monitors.

The California GOP asked f

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