Capitol Hill Election Observers

Specially Trained Capitol Hill Staffers to Observe Closely Contested Elections

An unspecified number of Capitol Hill aides are being deployed as “official House election observers in close, or particularly cumbersome congressional elections, in the coming weeks,” according to House Administration Committee Ranking Member Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.).

The administration panel is responsible for exercising “the House’s constitutional responsibility to serve as the final ‘Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its Members,'” Davis told officials in identical October 20 letters sent to all 50 states.

The congressional observers “must be granted access to view the process even if state law credentialing, partisan quota, or access requirements exist to the contrary.”

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Read the pdf letter to all 50 states