FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees will not monitor voting locations during the upcoming midterm elections, although other law enforcement agents will, a government official said in a court filing on Oct. 28.
“There will be no Federal Bureau of Investigation or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees, much less agents, serving as monitors,” the Department of Justice official said in the document, which was filed with the federal court in the District of Columbia.
The official, Eric Neff, acting chief of the Voting Section in the department’s Civil Rights Division, said he was aware of only one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employee participating in the division’s poll-monitoring effort. That employee, from Customs and Border Protection, is serving on behalf of the division, not as a DHS representative, according to Neff….