PADILLA, WARNER, COLLEAGUES PRESS DOJ ON FAIR AND LEGAL DEPLOYMENT OF ELECTION MONITORS DURING MIDTERMS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:

With less than 100 days until the midterm elections and amid ongoing threats from President Trump to nationalize, militarize, and interfere with election administration, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Mark Warner (D-Va.), Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led a group of colleagues in pressing the Department of Justice (DOJ) on their compliance with federal voting laws. The letter also cautions against the misuse of any federal election monitors to target jurisdictions in a partisan manner or interfere with voting or state and local election officials' administra...