2026-08-28T14:30:32.570Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：卡尼塔·艾尔
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发布于 2026年8月28日，美国东部时间上午10:30
初选 联邦机构 唐纳德·特朗普
2023年，怀俄明州州长马克·戈登在众议院自然资源委员会听证会上作证。
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怀俄明州共和党州长马克·戈登对上周在该州观察初选的司法部选举监票员表达了担忧，并表示他已要求州总检察长调查他们的“激进”行为。
戈登周三在州计票委员会会议上称，司法部向该州包括首府夏延在内的拉勒米县派出了两名民权 division 律师，但包括州总检察长在内的部分官员并未提前得知此次行动。
“监票员的行为似乎有些激进，”戈登说，并补充道，“这确实不合常规，我已要求总检察长开始调查……此次视察的性质以及诸如此类的问题。”
记者就此事置评请求联系司法部时，该部门引述了怀俄明州联邦检察官达林·史密斯8月18日的一份声明：“选民理应绝对相信他们的选票是安全的，他们的声音不会受到干扰……我们正与当地官员合作，确保每一张合法选票都得到保护。”
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截至本周二，司法部今年迄今已向七个州的初选派出了80多名监票员。该部门曾表示，将在11月向投票站派出约1000名监票员。
戈登的批评发声之际，总统唐纳德·特朗普仍在持续质疑选举公正性。今年早些时候，在司法部派出检察官观察选票处理流程前，他毫无根据地声称洛杉矶市长初选存在舞弊。特朗普还在没有任何证据的情况下，坚称自己在2020年大选中输给前总统乔·拜登的选举存在舞弊。
去年非大选年选举前，民主党人和投票权维权人士就曾担忧，这些监票员可能被用来破坏投票进程，或是为质疑选举结果铺垫。但特朗普政府坚称，此次派出监票员符合数十年来的联邦监督惯例。
戈登表示，他并不反对选举监票员这一做法，但担忧部署到怀俄明州的监票员的“行为似乎超出了国会赋予他们的权限”。
“我并不是说出现了任何问题或其他状况，我当然认为此次选举的表现非常出色，”戈登说。但他补充道，“我不喜欢联邦政府介入并掌控我们的选举。”
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Republican governor asks his AG to look into ‘aggressive’ behavior by Trump admin’s election monitors
2026-08-28T14:30:32.570Z / CNN
By Kaanita Iyer
1 hr 34 min ago
PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2026, 10:30 AM ET
Primary elections Federal agencies Donald Trump
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon testifies during the House Natural Resources Committee hearing in 2023.
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Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon voiced concerns about the Justice Department election monitors who observed the primary election in his state last week, saying he’s asked his attorney general to look into their “aggressive” behavior.
The Justice Department sent two Civil Rights Division attorneys to Laramie County, Wyoming, which includes the state capital of Cheyenne. But some officials, including the state attorney general, weren’t made aware of the move in advance, Gordon said at a state canvassing board meeting Wednesday.
“It sounded like the behavior of the observers was a bit aggressive,” Gordon said, adding, “It just was irregular and, and I have asked the attorney general to start looking into … the nature of the visits and all that sort of stuff.”
The DOJ, when reached for comment, pointed CNN to an August 18 statement from Wyoming US Attorney Darin Smith: “Voters deserve absolute confidence that their ballots are secure and their voices are heard without interference…. We are working alongside local officials to ensure every lawful vote is protected.”
CNN has reached out to the governor’s office for comment.
The DOJ said it has sent more than 80 monitors to seven states so far this year for primary elections, as of Tuesday. The department has said it would send about 1,000 monitors to polling sites in November.
Gordon’s criticism comes as President Donald Trump continues to sow doubt about elections. Earlier this year, he baselessly alleged there was cheating in the Los Angeles mayoral primary election before the DOJ sent a prosecutor to observe ballot processing. The president also still claims, without evidence, that the 2020 election he lost to former President Joe Biden was rigged.
Democrats and voting rights activists raised concerns last year, ahead of the off-year elections, that the monitors could be used to undermine the voting process or as a precursor to sow doubts about the election. But the Trump administration had insisted monitors are being sent out in line with decadeslong federal monitoring practices.
Gordon said he isn’t against the idea of election monitors, but raised concerns that the “behavior” of the ones deployed to Wyoming “seemed to exceed what the authority that Congress had given them was.”
“I’m not saying anything went wrong or anything else, and I certainly think that the conduct of this election was phenomenal,” Gordon said. But, he added, “I don’t like the federal government coming in and taking our votes.”
CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz and Fredreka Schouten contributed to this report.