The U.S. Department of Justice announced it is deploying approximately 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states for the first time in history, according to a DOJ press release. In Illinois, the DOJ named six jurisdictions for monitoring: Chicago, Cook County, Champaign County, Sangamon County, St. Clair County and Madison County. DuPage County is not on the list.

The DOJ's Civil Rights Division is coordinating the effort. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement that election integrity has been a top priority for the administration and that the department is pursuing transparency in an "assertive and nondiscriminatory manner."

Some voting rights groups, including the NAACP, say they believe the deployment could suppress turnout, particularly among minority voters, USA Today reported.

DuPage County's own teams

Closer to home, DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said his office is deploying assistant state's attorneys and investigators to canvass polling places and respond to suspected violations of the Illinois Election Code, according to a news release reported by Shaw Local. Prosecutors and investigators will be available from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 3.

Berlin's staff will maintain communications throughout the day with the DuPage County Clerk's Office in Wheaton. Local law enforcement and sheriff's deputies are also available to respond to any issues, Berlin said.

DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek told ABC 7 Chicago that despite national efforts to change mail-in voting guidelines ahead of the election, things are proceeding as normal in DuPage County. She said bipartisan teams of election judges oversee procedures and chain of custody.

"We don't discuss all of that out loud, but we are very concerned with some of the things that we hear going on around the country, and realize that that can happen here," Kaczmarek said.

Broader Illinois preparations

A coalition of voting rights organizations in Illinois, including the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Common Cause Illinois and the League of Women Voters of Illinois, trained nonpartisan poll watchers to observe polling places and report suspected violations, WTTW reported.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said his office set up a hotline at 312-469-6157 for witnesses to report allegations of unlawful voting activity, according to WTTW.

The DOJ also has a national election issues hotline at 1-800-253-3931.

DuPage County residents with questions or concerns about activities at any polling place can call the DuPage County Clerk at 630-407-5600 or the State's Attorney's Election Hotline at 630-407-8118. Polls close at 7 p.m.