Politics
Federal Justice Department plans Election Day presence at Jefferson County polls
The Justice Department will send election monitors to polling places in Jefferson County, local officials said Oct. 26. County Clerk David Yates and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg planned to provide more details at a news conference that afternoon.
The U.S. Department of Justice will monitor polling places in Jefferson County on Election Day, county officials announced Oct. 26, ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Jefferson County Clerk David Yates and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg were scheduled to discuss the federal presence at a news conference later that day. Officials had not provided further details in their announcement about the number of monitors or which polling places they would visit.