Scoop: @joshkovensky.bsky.social obtained the response that Detroit election officials sent back to the DOJ, after DOJ told officials in Detroit and two other blue cities in Michigan (Lansing, East Lansing) that it would send monitors there for the Aug. 4 primary:

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Detroit election officials accused the Justice Department of using "false claims" to create a "pretext" to justify sending voting monitors to the city for an upcoming election, letters exclusively obtained by TPM show.