The administration sent monitors to elections in 2025.
Posted by Badlands Media, Checked
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
The claim is supported: the DOJ announced in October 2025 that it would monitor polling sites in California and New Jersey for the November 4, 2025 election, and PolitiFact, CNN, and WDSU reported the monitors being deployed. The claim matches the post's wording, which refers to this administration sending monitors in 2025.
What was said
… She was there for 25 years. Uhm, monitors are not unusual. It happens all the time. They are still subject to the rules regarding the polling place. They are there to serve as a fly on the wall, and they are allowed to document but not interfere. And this administration has already sent monitors to a lot of elections. They sent monitors to elections in 2025. They've been sending monitors to elections during the primaries. The only time we've even heard an attempt to interfere, possibly, is in Wyoming recently, and election officials very effectively told them, "No, you're not allowed to do that. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The DOJ's own press release dated October 24, 2025 announced it would monitor polling sites in six California and New Jersey jurisdictions for the November 4, 2025 election.[3]
Supports. PolitiFact reported on October 28, 2025 that the Trump administration's Justice Department would send federal election monitors to five California counties and one New Jersey county.[1]
Supports. CNN and WDSU reported in early November 2025 that the Justice Department was dispatching federal monitors to polling locations in New Jersey and California on election day.[4][5]
Context. AP's October 2025 coverage described the DOJ as 'preparing to send' monitors, so the deployment was announced in advance and reported as dispatched on election day rather than confirmed in the sources' earliest reports.[2]
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 primary, 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1The Trump administration is deploying election monitors to ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2DOJ prepares to send election monitors to California, New ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department to Monitor ...justice.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4What to know about Justice Department election monitors - CNNcnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 5What to know about Justice Department election monitorswdsu.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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