Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 07/11/2026 3:33:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is in open revolt over a federal election-monitoring plan headed straight for his state.
President Trump’s Justice Department is sending monitors into key jurisdictions for the 2026 primaries, and Walz is suddenly talking as if neutral eyes inside polling places are a threat to democracy.
There is one enormous problem with that performance: Minnesota welcomed Justice Department election monitors under administrations of both parties for years.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon laid out the new deployment herself. The Civil Rights Division has identified jurisdictions across six states, and she says this is only the beginning.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division explains that its attorneys and staff monitor polling places to assess compliance with federal voting-rights laws. In jurisdictions where federal observers are authorized, those observers document what they witness and report it back to the department.
Federal election monitoring long predates President Trump. Democrat administrations also sent personnel into jurisdictions across the country as part of voting-rights enforcement.
The department says its teams watch for compliance issues involving access to the ballot, discrimination, language assistance and accommodations for voters with disabilities. Division staff may also stay in contact with state and local election officials while they are in the field.
In plain English, these monitors observe and document. They do not replace Minnesota election officials, run polling places or count the state’s ballots, which makes Walz’s rhetoric sound considerably more dramatic than the actual federal role.
Walz nevertheless compared the Justice Department to a fox guarding a henhouse and accused the administration of political interference.
Trump’s DOJ monitoring elections is like a fox monitoring a henhouse.
We cannot allow our right to vote to be undermined by political interference. Every state must administer their elections free from unlawful federal intrusion. https://t.co/hKD4KSTfFU— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) July 10, 2026
The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that monitors are expected in Minnesota for the August 11 primary, with an even larger federal monitoring effort planned for the November general election. The deployment is part of a six-state operation covering 15 jurisdictions.
Dhillon said the goals include increasing voter confidence and watching for barriers involving language access and voters with disabilities. Those are ordinary Civil Rights Division concerns, not evidence that Washington intends to seize control of Minnesota’s election machinery.
The paper also reported that Minnesota’s own secretary of state’s office acknowledged federal monitors have been sent into the state before. That history matters because Walz is presenting the current plan as a shocking departure from normal practice.
It is fair for any governor to demand that federal officials stay within the law. But it is also fair for Americans to ask why a monitoring system tolerated in 2004, 2020, 2022 and 2024 has suddenly become intolerable when the Trump administration is the one using it.
Dhillon answered Walz with receipts.
Hi @GovTimWalz -- MN welcomed 47 DOJ election monitors across six districts in 2004, 2020, 2022, & 2024. Now, however, you refuse to comply w/federal legal requests re elections. This raises serious concerns about transparency and accountability in MN -- what is there to hide? https://t.co/pFlL28Ecxt— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) July 10, 2026
According to the Civil Rights chief, Minnesota welcomed 47 Justice Department monitors across six districts during those four election cycles. Then she put the obvious question directly to the governor: what changed, and what is there to hide?
The monitor fight is unfolding alongside a broader election-integrity push. CBS News reported that Dhillon sent letters to election officials across the country reminding them that federal law bars noncitizens from voting in federal elections.
The letters warned that officials could face criminal exposure if they knowingly keep ineligible noncitizens on state voter lists or help them obtain and cast ballots. A Justice Department spokesperson described the request as an effort to secure voluntary, timely compliance with existing federal obligations.
Several Democrat election officials pushed back and insisted their systems already prevent ineligible voting. The administration, meanwhile, has continued pressing states for voter-roll information and stronger proof that only eligible citizens remain registered.
That context explains the political temperature. A handful of attorneys inside polling locations is only the visible piece of a much larger fight over whether state officials will accept aggressive federal scrutiny before control of Congress is decided.
Walz can call the monitors foxes. He can accuse President Trump of plotting to rig an election by watching it more closely.
But the numbers in Dhillon’s response are brutal: 47 monitors, six Minnesota districts and four previous election cycles.
If federal observation was legitimate then, Minnesota voters deserve a much better explanation for why it is supposedly dangerous now.
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
The rats stole 4-5 Senate seats and 15-20 house races in 24. I hope this means they are finally doing something about it.
Gosh, for the life of me I can’t imagine why Tampon would be against this.🙄
The Feds better bring fully armed Federal Marshalls and don’t take no BS from the local communist constabulary................
Poor baby!
Quick somebody get Walz some ketamine and a loaded revolver.
He wouldn’t know what to do with the revolver.................
I can’t imagine what he believes he’s relevant.
Walz is dehydrated rock hard stupid. Another example: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4387632/posts
I hope Harmeet kicks his ass.
This wimp is one of the the most vacuous, empty-headed turds who the Left has ever hoisted on a pedestal.
I have no idea what he means about that statement.
If he had said "Democrat politicians monitoring elections in Minnesota is like a fox monitoring a henhouse." I would have understood that perfectly.
Audit Omar. She’s the millionaire who married her brother.
INB4 some Hawaiian communist judge rules that they can’t do it.
I like Harmeet, we need a lot more like her.
Tim is out in January, back to just being a CSM....
I bet there’s a huge drop in vote totals in the Somali districts.
Why isn’t this Tim Walz reprobate CCP tool along with that Ilhan Omar creature not already locked up?
Maybe they can make a plea deal to see which one will rat the other out first. One is better than none.
Walz is so corrupt he needs to monitoring or he’ll steal MN for the RATS.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.