Laramie County, Wyoming

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, a Republican, said this week he has asked the state attorney general to look into the conduct of Justice Department election observers who monitored the state's primaries last week, calling their behavior "aggressive" and "irregular." Gordon said state and local officials were not notified in advance of the DOJ's plans and that the observers' conduct appeared to exceed the authority Congress had granted them, though he stressed he saw no evidence anything went wrong with the election itself.

Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee, also a Republican, said the monitors requested training guides, asked about equipment procurement, sought to examine tabulators, and tried to interview voters — requests she denied as outside the scope of federal voting rights law. The DOJ deployed more than 80 monitors across seven states during this year's primaries, part of a broader plan to send up to 1,000 monitors during the midterms, a move that has drawn criticism from Democrats and voting rights advocates amid the administration's continued unfounded election fraud claims.