Federal monitors heading to Cass County polls on Election Day

FARGO — Department of Justice election monitors will observe polling locations in Cass County on Election Day as part of a nationwide effort. The federal observers will be part of more than 1,000 election monitors being sent to polling locations across all 50 states on Election Day, an expansion of the department s monitoring compared to 2022. In the 2022 midterms, observers were sent to 64 jurisdictions across 24 states. Sarah Heinle, head election official for Cass County, North Dakota s most populous county, said she spoke with Department of Justice officials Friday morning and learned the department will send a handful of election monitors on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The DOJ monitors will visit up to seven polling locations in Cass County and will observe for about an hour at each site to ensure compliance with federal election law, she said. Cass County, home to Fargo and West Fargo, accounted for about 22% of North Dakota voters in the 2022 midterms. They will be fol