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The American Civil Liberties Union will spend more than $50 million on the 2026 midterm election, with half going toward efforts to ensure smooth administration of elections as President Donald Trump seeks to exert more control over the process.<\/p>\n

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In plans shared first with NBC News, ACLU officials said they will train and deploy more than 100 paid staff members and more than 3,000 volunteer leaders to encourage people to vote and to ensure voter access while monitoring ballot counting and certification.<\/p>\n

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Those people will coordinate thousands of other volunteers. The ACLU said it has already trained 5,000 people on election work and plans to train 5,000 more. <\/p>\n

Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin \u2014 all critical battleground states \u2014 are expected to receive the bulk of the investment. <\/p>\n

Widespread monitoring of the canvass and certification is new for the organization, said Deidre Schifeling, the ACLU\u2019s chief political and advocacy officer. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a really unprecedented situation here with this administration\u2019s abuses of power and concerted attempts to suppress voters, to gerrymander, to basically co-opt our democratic system,\u201d Schifeling said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhere it is clear that the administration is undermining the legitimacy of our democratic process and trying to co-opt it or sabotage it, we will be ready to react to that in a variety of ways,\u201d she added, noting that they could include litigation, protests or public information campaigns. <\/p>\n

Some of the efforts are already underway. <\/p>\n

The ACLU is involved in more than 80 lawsuits in two dozen states and Washington, D.C., over voting rights issues, including suits involving redistricting and mail balloting limits.<\/p>\n

The group has also begun election-monitoring efforts.In last month\u2019s Georgia primary,local ACLU affiliates put monitors on the ground to watch voting and vote counting in seven counties. They plan to expand to 30 countiesin Georgia in November.<\/p>\n

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The other half of the national $50 million effort \u2014 which the ACLU said is the largest election investment in its history \u2014 will be directed to down-ballot races and ballot measure campaigns. <\/p>\n

They include state Supreme Court races in Montana and North Carolina and secretary of state races in Arizona and Nevada. The group also plans to get involved in state legislative contests in North Carolina, Montana, Georgia and Michigan.<\/p>\n

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Those races are part of a \u201cfirewall for freedom strategy,\u201d Schifeling said. <\/p>\n

\u201cGiven all the signals that we\u2019ve received from this administration, all of the totally unprecedented ways that they have acted to intervene in elections and to undermine mail-in voting and to insert DOJ in election processes in a way that is unprecedented and inappropriate, we would be foolish to not be prepared,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we are prepared, but we hope that we don\u2019t need to use this tool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the U.S. Constitution largely gives states and municipalities the authority to run elections, Trump has signed executive orders aimed at intervening in the process. In March, he signed an executive order to create federal voter lists and require the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver certain people\u2019s ballots. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Justice Department has also sued 30 states and Washington, D.C. \u2014 so far unsuccessfully \u2014 for refusing to turn over voter roll data. The FBI has also seized 2020 election materials or records from Arizona and Georgia, while the Justice Department demanded 2024 ballots from Wayne County, Michigan. And the FBI tried to interview a top election official in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. <\/p>\n

In February, Trump said Republicans should federalize elections in some places. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republicans should say: \u2018We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least \u2014 many, 15 places.\u2019 The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n

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Litigation has curbed some of his efforts, but some election officials have expressed worries that he could send federal agents to the polls this fall, though it is illegal under federal law to deploy \u201ctroops or armed men\u201d to polling sites. <\/p>\n

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