Trump administration sued over plans to send election monitors to voting sites

NAACP files lawsuit after head of DoJ's civil rights division says she hopes to send election monitors to polls

The Trump administration has been sued over its plans to deploy a historic number" of election monitors to polling stations during next month's midterm elections.

The bid stands to jeopardize" the elections and could interfere with the right of voters to participate in the election free from intimidation", according to the NAACP, which filed a lawsuit against Harmeet Dhillon, head of the justice department's civil rights division, who has said she hopes to send 1,000 monitors to midterm polling sites in November.