The Justice Department said Tuesday it will deploy about 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states to watch the polls, the first time it has done so, Axios reported.
Axios reported that the effort follows repeated court rejections of Justice Department attempts to force states to restrict voting for alleged noncitizens. It also comes amid a long-running Trump administration push to fight voter fraud, according to the same report.
CBS News reported in a video segment that the Trump administration's Justice Department deployed a record number of election monitors to polling sites across the United States. Its headline describes the 1,000 monitors as an "intimidation tactic," according to a voting advocate.
The CBS News segment summary names Democracy Forward President Skye Perryman as speaking on the importance of voting and democracy. It does not say whether she is the advocate quoted in the headline.
The two accounts differ on timing. Axios reported that the department said it will deploy the monitors, while CBS News described the monitors as already deployed. Both reports cite about 1,000 monitors, though Axios described the plan as covering all 50 states and CBS News described a record number across polling sites.
Neither available summary reports a Justice Department response to the characterization in the CBS News headline.
Sources: Axios: DOJ sending 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states; CBS News: DOJ sending 1,000 monitors to polling sites is an "intimidation tactic," voting advocate says.