In a sign that House Republicans aren't going to sit around and hope everything goes well for them on Election Day, they're proactively preparing to deploy “dozens and dozens” of congressional staffers across the country to keep a close eye on some of the nation's tightest congressional races. And those observers will be ready to sound the alarm fast if they observe something suspicious.

Control of the House is on the line – and Democrats are already bleating about all the "investigations" they'll be starting if they take the majority – so the Committee on House Administration, which has jurisdiction over federal elections, is deploying its annual election watcher program aimed at adding oversight in districts where races are anticipated to be particularly close.

The operation will be bigger this year than ever before and, in some cases, will pave the way for legal challenges if voting shenanigans are discovered.

“This year's program will be the most robust program the House has ever done,” Republican Rep. Bryan Steil (WI-01), who chairs the Committee on House Administration, told Fox News Digital.

“We're building on the success that we had last cycle and recognizing that a large number of House races are likely to be close,” he said. “The balance of power in the United States House of Representatives is at stake, and we wanna make sure that we have eyes and ears on the ground in close races across the country.”

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Steil's committee runs its own Election Observer Program, training and dispatching congressional staffers to monitor federal elections. The observers are able to watch the voting itself, as well as witness ballot processing and tabulation. They gather information that the committee then keeps as a record in case an election is contested.

The observers will have a direct line to House GOP leaders should they see anything go awry.

“Not only are they documenting what they're seeing, but they're in direct contact with myself and the committee on Election Day, so that we're in a position to deploy additional resources, if necessary, to make any court challenges if that was required,” Steil said.

“They are the first step in identifying if there is a problem, and then they notify our team and we get to work immediately," he added.

Given how few seats could determine who controls the House come January, having trained observers on the ground and lawyers ready to move on a moment's notice seems considerably smarter than discovering after the fact that somebody probably should have been watching all along.