The U.S. Department of Justice will deploy federal election observers to polling sites in five California counties—Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside, and Fresno—during next week’s special election. The DOJ says the monitors will ensure transparency and compliance with federal law, a routine practice for the agency. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber questioned the move, saying her office was given no justification for why monitors are being sent to a nonfederal special election.

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