DOJ election monitors will stay 100 feet from Adams County polls on Nov. 3

By Marianne Goodland | The Denver Gazette

Federal election monitors will not enter polling places in a Colorado county at the center of one of America’s battleground congressional districts.

Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold had notified the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday that its election monitors “may only enter Adams County voter centers under strict parameters and restrictions.”

The Justice Department responded to Griswold an hour later saying it would decline her offer and that its monitors would remain outside polling places and would not come within 100 feet of those voting centers, in accordance with Colorado state law.

Griswold said in a statement that “My office provided reasonable restrictions on DOJ monitors, which they refused to accept. As a result, the DOJ will not be allowed to enter voter centers in Adams County.”

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