Federal prosecutors monitor voting sites during New Hampshire primary

The Department of Justice planned to monitor polling sites during New Hampshire’s Tuesday primary to ensure election security and transparency, according to a Tuesday statement. Staffers with the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division planned to monitor polls in Manchester and Nashua, two of the state’s largest cities. Federal monitors would ensure that polling places honored federal voting laws and only allowed eligible citizens to fill out ballots during the swing state’s primary.

New Hampshire marked the eighth state to receive federal election oversight this year, with prosecutors monitoring primary polling spots in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Michigan, Arizona, South Carolina, Florida, and Wyoming. The DOJ planned to monitor polling places throughout the primary season and to ramp up monitoring to ensure transparency during the November midterms, according to the Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.

How has the state responded? WORLD reached out to the office of New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan. This story will be updated with any response received.