# Election officials brace for possible Trump interference in the midterms

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/election-officials-brace-for-possible-trump-interference-in-the-midterms/
- Published: 2026-11-03T16:41:47+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T20:06:53+00:00
- Original publisher: France 24
- Original article: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261103-how-state-officials-prepared-for-possible-trump-interference-in-the-midterms
- Topics: Americas, Elections, Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- State officials fear federal interference in election administration.
- Courts rejected many Justice Department voter-data cases.
- Around 1,000 federal monitors are planned for polling places.

## Summary

State election officials are preparing for possible interference by President Donald Trump’s administration in the US midterm elections. They fear federal action could disrupt voting, challenge ballot counts or obstruct certification of results that go against the president’s preferences, although the Constitution gives states primary responsibility for administering elections.

The Justice Department sought voter registration data from all 50 states and sued 30 states and Washington, DC; courts rejected more than two dozen cases. The Supreme Court also rejected its demand to set aside ballots from about 20,000 people in California and more than 400 in Washington state over suspected non-citizen voting, which studies describe as exceptionally rare. The department plans to send around 1,000 monitors to polling places nationwide, while the administration has not invited independent OSCE observers, breaking with two decades of precedent.

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