California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Monday that the state will monitor the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) election observers ahead of next week’s general election.  During a virtual news conference, Bonta said that observers will provide “oversight and accountability” of the federal monitors, according to KCRA in Sacramento.

“[The federal monitors] will not be allowed to interfere in ways that the law prohibits,” Bonta added. On Friday, the DOJ announced its Civil Rights Division, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, will monitor polling sites in five California counties ahead of the election: Kern, Riverside, Fresno, Orange and Los Angeles. It will also monitor polling sites in Passiac County, New Jersey, where voters are picking a new governor. The move came afte

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