The U.S. Department of Justice will have election monitors at the polls in eight Massachusetts cities to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws, Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy’s office announced.
The cities are Everett, Fitchburg, Leominster, Lowell, Malden, Methuen, Quincy and Salem.
Massachusetts is one of 27 states where the Justice Department is assigning monitors on Election Day, Levy’s office said.
Additionally, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lucy Sun has been appointed to serve as district election officer for Massachusetts, responsible for overseeing the handling of election day criminal complaints, threats of violence to election officials or staff and election fraud.
Assistant United States Attorney Anuj Khetarpal has been appointed as Voting Rights Coordinator for the District of Massachusetts and will lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Election Day monitoring efforts. Nationally, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will coordinate the effort which includes monitors from the Civil Rights Division, other Department divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management.