The speaker served as a DOJ monitor for seven years.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
The claim attributes to the speaker (David Becker, per the episode title) seven years of service as a DOJ monitor, which the passage states. None of the provided sources addresses Becker's monitoring history, so neither confirmation nor contradiction is possible; the sources only give general background on the monitor program.
What was said
… So I'm 100% confident that's not going to happen. I'll just briefly bring up the monitors also. I know there's been a lot of concern about that. I've been a DOJ monitor. I've probably been in roughly 4,000 precincts in my career, and I only served there for seven years. I have, uhm, people on my team, former DOJ lawyers, uh, Tamar Hagler, former Chief of the Voting Section, who probably did it much more. She was there for 25 years. Uhm, monitors are not unusual. It happens all the time. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. PolitiFact identifies David Becker only as executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research and quotes him on monitors generally, without mentioning any personal service as a monitor or its length.[1]
Context. Background sources describe DOJ monitors as generally experienced Justice Department attorneys who observe polling places, but none gives individual monitors' tenure or Becker's service history.[1][2][3]
Sources
3 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1The facts about DOJ sending election monitors to CA, NJpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Inside the Plan to Send 1000 DOJ Monitors to the Pollstheatlantic.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 3U.S. Department of Justice Election Monitorscampaignlegal.org · not rated · cited for: context
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