Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon urges DOJ attorneys, staffers to volunteer to be election monitors

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, on Tuesday encouraged attorneys and staffers within her department to sign up as election monitors. 

Dhillion made the request in an email, reviewed by news outlet NOTUS, in an effort that appears to be part of a plan to deploy 1,000 monitors to polls in November.

The emails went out to Civil Rights Division employees, asking attorneys and professional staff to go to an unspecified number of polling places around the country on Nov. 3 or work at a call center in Washington, accoring to NOTUS. 

The Justice Department typically sends federal election monitors to polling places during primaries, midterms and presidential elections, and such recruitment memos are not unusual. 

In an interview with Bloomberg, Dhillon said that the 1,000 monitors she hopes to deploy would watch for compliance with voting accessibility rules and other civil rights issues within the Civil Rights Division’s purview, as well as election fraud.