The Justice Department announced on October 5 that it plans to send about 1,000 election monitors to polling places for the 2026 midterms, a program Attorney General Todd Blanche defended by citing decades of monitoring and denying claims of armed federal agents at polls. Reporting since puts the deployment in all 50 states at roughly three times the last midterms, and Harmeet Dhillon says it will be the largest number of poll monitors in American history. Democracy Forward documents surfaced October 8 showing the monitor preparation alongside ICE holding 50 million voter records. In a toss-up Colorado district, only the Democratic county received a monitoring notification; the DOJ cited language access. Trump says monitors will be in six metro Atlanta…