Rep. Joe Morelle (D–N.Y.) said 275 Democratic House staffers have signed up to serve as official election observers for the Nov. 3 midterms, a record for the party.
Morelle, the top Democrat on the Committee on House Administration, disclosed the figure during a press call on Oct. 19 hosted by Try And Stop Us, an activist group.
“We’ve never had so much interest by our staff who want to be trained to be official election observers,” Morelle said.
He said the volunteers will be trained and sent across the country in their official capacities to watch vote counts and recounts and to keep contemporaneous notes. Those firsthand accounts would form a record if a House race is challenged or contested, he said, because the committee recommends to the full House which candidate should be seated….