Gavin Newsom faces backlash after criticizing DOJ's plan to send federal election monitors to California, with officials noting the practice is standard.

Voters can find help at these centers with obtaining a replacement ballot, registering to vote, casting a provisional ballot and more.

The department will monitor elections at five sites in California and one in New Jersey ahead of elections in both states on Nov. 4, the agency announced Friday.

The Justice Department is preparing to send election observers to California and New Jersey next month, following requests from their state Republican parties.

The U.S. Justice Department said it was asked to monitor polling sites in California in November by state GOP officials.

Everything's getting so political because you're either blue or red. That's not the way it's supposed to be.' Shasta County voters speak out.

The short answer is no, according to the California secretary of state’s office. “The only possible impact would be if United States Postal Service operations were interrupted and the USPS has noted that their operations won’t be interrupted,” a spokesperson for the secretary of state said in an email.

California Republicans launched a ballot initiative to require voter ID, needing 875,000 signatures for 2026 ballot with over 300,000 collected so far.

Turnout for the Nov. 4 special election is lower than it was at this point during the 2021 recall against Gov. Gavin Newsom.