Trump administration to send election monitors to Idaho’s largest county
Voters cast their ballots in the general election on Nov. 5, 2024, at Cathedral of the Rockies in Boise. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) The Trump administration is sending election monitors to Idaho's largest county on Election Day next week, the state's top election official confirmed Wednesday. The decision comes as the Justice Department plans to deploy 1,000 election monitors — who the DOJ says are meant to assess local compliance with federal voting rights laws — to all 50 states. That would make for a significantly expanded presence than under the Biden administration, which sent election monitors to 24 states for the 2022 midterm elections, States Newsroom reported. Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane, an elected Republican, said the U.S. Justice Department notified him and the Ada County Clerk's Office, which runs the election locally, that there will be two teams in…