Financial Times reports several hundred US lawyers have agreed to volunteer pro bono to monitor next month’s midterm elections — the largest mobilisation of its kind, according to voting-rights groups. Volunteers will support election-integrity nonprofits via election hotlines and litigation against suspected interference, including potential deployment of immigration enforcement to polling places. Former deputy attorney general Seth Waxman said he has worked on election protection since 2004 an

Financial Times reports several hundred US lawyers have agreed to volunteer pro bono to monitor next month’s midterm elections — the largest mobilisation of its kind, according to voting-rights groups. Volunteers will support election-integrity nonprofits via election hotlines and litigation against suspected interference, including potential deployment of immigration enforcement to polling places. Former deputy attorney general Seth Waxman said he has worked on election protection since 2004 and has never seen comparable scale in a midterm, adding, This year is completely different.