Gov. Newsom to deploy election lawyers to monitor congressional votes

Key Points:

• California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the deployment of statewide teams of election-law attorneys and poll watchers to monitor federal agents the Trump administration plans to place at polling locations, aiming to protect election integrity.
• The Trump administration has been involved in California's election by filing a lawsuit to discard over 20,000 ballots believed to be sent to noncitizens and planning to deploy federal agents to monitor elections.
• Newsom emphasized that his office will not allow federal agents to operate without protections and has organized election integrity teams comprising over 800 poll observers, 134 attorneys, and 54 hotline operators to safeguard voters' rights.
• The California Democratic Party launched a multilingual voter-protection hotline and a rapid-response ballot-curing legal assistance program to ensure eligible votes are counted and voter issues are addressed promptly.
• Newsom warned that a new state law makes it a felony to illegally seize ballots or tamper with voting technology, asserting that California voters, not federal agents, will decide election outcomes, and pledged to resist any attempts to undermine the election.