{
  "id": 15980775,
  "title": "The Justice Department begins notifying counties where it wants to monitor elections",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/the-justice-department-begins-notifying-counties-where-it-wants-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T00:18:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR",
    "slug": "npr",
    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-6009896/justice-department-monitors"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The department has long deployed election monitors, but the Trump administration's unprecedented steps to try to wrestle control over elections have led to new concerns about DOJ monitoring this year.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}