Fresno may have its most watched-over election ever.

Voters are currently deciding Proposition 50, which would change the state Constitution to allow for redrawn congressional maps, six years ahead of the regular cycle.

A week after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would send election monitors to Fresno County — and California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he would send his own monitors — the Fresno City Council will also have attorneys watching over polling places.

The city council voted 6-0 in closed session Thursday to send the monitors. Councilmember Tyler Maxwell was absent.

At a news conference Thursday after the vote, Councilmember Nelson Esparza said it was about transparency and confidence.

“This is an effort to ensure transparency and to attempt to quell the con

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