FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The special election over Proposition 50 is about to be even more closely watched.

Days after the Justice Department said it's going to monitor sites in Fresno County, the Fresno City Council announced its own plans to do so as well. City Attorney Andrew Janz, Council President Mike Karbassi, and Councilmember Nelson Esparza announced that more eyes will be on Fresno's polling sites. It's a move they hope will get more folks to vote.

“The city council has directed our city attorney's office to establish a program where we will be having our city attorney's personnel monitoring polling sites,” Esparza said.

Polling locations in Fresno will be monitored on the federal, state, and now, the city level.

“The purpose for sending these election observers is not pa

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