Trump admin sued over plan to deploy election monitors at US midterm polling stations

US President Donald Trump. The Trump administration has been sued over its plan to deploy a large number of election monitors at polling stations across the US during next month’s midterm elections, with the NAACP alleging that the move could intimidate voters and interfere with the electoral process.The Guardian reported that the NAACP has filed a lawsuit against Harmeet Dhillon, head of the justice department’s civil rights division, over the planned deployment. Dhillon has said she hopes to send around 1,000 monitors to polling sites during the November midterm elections.The lawsuit seeks to force the Trump administration to release records related to the planned deployment. The NAACP said it had requested the documents under the Freedom of Information Act on September 1, but the Justice Department had not complied with the request.The civil rights organisation said the release of the records was necessary to protect voting rights and ensure transparency ahead of the elections.“There is no federal statute that gives the US Department of Justice the right to send their so-called ‘election monitors’ to polling sites across the country,” said Kristen Clarke, the NAACP’s general cou...