2026年8月18日 美国东部时间12:14 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
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华盛顿——美国司法部民权司负责人本周表示，该部门计划在全国范围内的中期选举投票站部署创纪录的1000名联邦监票员。
民权司助理司法部长哈米特·迪伦周一在接受彭博社采访时宣布了这一消息。
长期以来，民权司都会向全国各投票站派遣监票员，以确保遵守联邦《投票权法案》。该法案禁止投票中的歧视行为，确保选民不会因种族、性别、族裔、宗教、残疾或其他受保护身份而受到恐吓或被剥夺投票权。
过去，司法部的民权律师一直担任监票员，通常只会向多个投票站派遣数十名工作人员。例如，在2024年大选期间，该部门对27个州的86个辖区的联邦投票权法案执行情况进行了监督。
然而，特朗普政府时期的民权司几乎被掏空。在迪伦领导下，该部门的使命发生调整，导致超过70%的职业职员提前退休或辞职。尽管她随后招募了更多律师，但该部门人手仍然不足。
司法部一名发言人告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，为了为即将到来的选举凑齐1000名监票员，该部门将招募联邦公职人员志愿参与此次工作。一名部门官员补充说，招募对象将涵盖司法部雇员，包括全国各地联邦检察官办公室的工作人员。
完整的监票地点清单预计将在初选结束后公开。周二，司法部宣布将向佛罗里达州迈阿密-戴德县和怀俄明州拉勒米县的投票站派遣监票员，监督当地初选。
尽管司法部向投票站派遣监票员是长期惯例，但今年一些州对此格外警惕。原因是民权司已提起31起诉讼，要求各州提供未编辑的选民数据。该司表示，此举旨在确保每个州的选民名册准确无误，且没有非公民进行选民登记。但各州辩称，这些诉讼是为了质疑选举程序本身的公正性。截至目前，美国政府在这些诉讼中无一胜诉，法官已在23起案件中驳回了其获取数据的请求。
与此同时，美国国土安全部希望利用这些选民信息开展刑事和移民执法工作。
特朗普总统本人多次拒绝承认自己在2020年大选中落败，并毫无根据地声称选举被窃取。此后，联邦调查局针对2020年选举结果展开了多起刑事调查，包括在佐治亚州富尔顿县和亚利桑那州。
近日，亚利桑那州州务卿阿德里安·丰特斯提交了一份公共记录申请，希望查明司法部为何向该州三个县派遣监票员监督其初选。
Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to polling places in midterm elections
2026-08-18 12:14 PM EDT / CBS News
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Washington— The Justice Department is planning to deploy a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places throughout the U.S. for the midterm elections, the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division said this week.
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, made the announcement in remarks to Bloomberg on Monday.
The Civil Rights Division has long sent out monitors to polling places throughout the country to ensure compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act. That law prohibits discrimination in voting and ensures voters are not intimidated or otherwise prevented from casting a ballot on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability or another protected class.
Historically, the Justice Department’s own civil rights attorneys have served as monitors, and usually it sends out dozens of staff to a variety of polling places. In the 2024 general election, for instance, the department monitored compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions across 27 states.
The Civil Rights Division under the Trump administration, however, has been largely gutted. More than 70% of its career staff took early retirement or resigned amid concerns about changes to its mission under Dhillon’s leadership. Although she has since recruited more attorneys, it remains understaffed.
In order to reach 1,000 monitors for the upcoming election, a DOJ spokesperson told CBS News that the department will seek federal employees to volunteer for the effort. A department official added that the recruitment will target DOJ employees, including people in U.S. Attorney’s Offices throughout the country.
A full list of locations is expected to be made public once the primaries are concluded. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it was sending monitors to polling places for primary elections in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Laramie County, Wyoming.
While it is longstanding practice for the DOJ to send monitors to polling places, some states are more suspicious this year, given the 31 lawsuits the Civil Rights Division has filed seeking states’ unredacted voter data. The division has said it wants to ensure each state’s rolls are clean, and that noncitizens are not registered. The states argue the suits are an effort to cast doubt on the integrity of the election process itself. The government has not prevailed in a single lawsuit so far, with judges blocking the requests for data in 23 cases to date.
The Department of Homeland Security, meanwhile, wants to use the voter information to carry out criminal and immigration enforcement.
President Trump, for his part, has repeatedly refused to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, and claimed without evidence that it was stolen. The FBI has since launched a number of criminal investigations related to the 2020 election results, including in Fulton County, Georgia, and in Arizona.
Recently, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes filed a public records request in the hopes of learning why DOJ was deploying monitors in three counties to monitor its primary election.
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