Federal judge orders DOJ to ensure poll monitors are not law enforcement officials

A federal judge issued an order restricting the composition of poll monitors deployed by the Department of Justice on Election Day. The order prohibits armed officers and individuals with arrest authority from serving as poll monitors. The NAACP had filed a separate legal challenge seeking to block the monitors entirely, which the judge did not grant.

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