DOJ election monitors to be deployed in four Pennsylvania counties on election day

This story was originally published by Pennsylvania Capital Star The U.S. Department of Justice notified Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt last week that it plans to send federal election monitors to observe polling places in four Pennsylvania counties on election day. The counties are Allegheny, Lehigh, Luzerne and Philadelphia. The deployment is part of a nationwide effort. Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, has said the department intends to se...