{
  "id": 16226548,
  "title": "DOJ has monitored elections for decades. Here's why some state officials are concerned this year",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/doj-has-monitored-elections-for-decades-heres-why-some-state",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T20:16:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PBS NewsHour",
    "slug": "pbs-newshour",
    "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/doj-has-monitored-elections-for-decades-heres-why-some-state-officials-are-concerned-this-year"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The agency regularly monitors polling places. But this year's effort on Nov. 3 will more than double the number of federal monitors deployed during the 2022 midterms.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}