(The Center Square) – California has nothing to hide.

That’s Attorney General Rob Bonta’s response to The Center Square’s question about the U.S. Department of Justice assigning monitors to five counties for Tuesday’s election on congressional redistricting.

The counties are Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Kern and Fresno. Elsewhere in the U.S., the DOJ is sending monitors to Passaic County, N.J.

The monitoring is being overseen by the DOJ’s Civil Rights division. The DOJ said its goal is to ensure compliance with federal laws including the Voting Rights Act, National Voter Registration Act, Help America Vote Act, Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, and the Civil Rights Acts.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ is committing its resources to ensure Ame

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