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Justice Department to send record 1,000 monitors to polling places for midterm elections

The head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced Monday that she's planning to deploy 1,000 federal monitors to polling places throughout the U.S. for the midterm elections. Jen Fifield, reporter for ProPublica, joins CBS News to discuss.

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Justice Department to send record 1,000 monitors to polling places for midterm elections
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