DOJ fires warning shot against ‘unusual’ post-election ballot reviews

POLITICO ^ | July 28 | By JOSH GERSTEIN and ZACH MONTELLARO

[RandFan]

The Justice Department on Wednesday issued another warning aimed at states conducting or considering audits of ballots tallied in last year’s election, reminding election authorities that allowing ballots to be mishandled can violate federal law.

While the Biden administration “guidance” document carries no formal legal weight and may not strike fear into local officials, the Justice Department used the release of the legal analysis to press their campaign of saber-rattling against Republican-led audits of the 2020 vote in Arizona and other states, as well as voting changes many GOP-controlled states are pursuing as part of purported anti-fraud efforts.

[Recovering_Democrat]

ooooh.. the DOJ that hates justice.

[rightwingcrazy]

An unverifiable election cannot be a democratic one.

[Steely Tom]

What happened to “presidential elections are a matter for the states to handle” ?

[JoSixChip]

Funny, they had no interest in securing the ballots at election time. This is the most corrupt government in the world.

[Skywise]

Of course the communists did.

[LIConFem]

The DOJ now fancies itself Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, all rolled into one. This Garland character is suffering the same flavor of brain rot as Xiden. He’s just not as far gone yet...

[Dilbert San Diego]

I know its a cliche, but I will ask, what does anyone fear from an audit, if there’s nothing to hide?

[Seruzawa]

Good thing that Nazi Garland isn’t on the USSC.

[Enlightened1]

The States have that Right to do this, and there is nothing illegal about it.

The DOJ should be for transparency.

[seowulf]

I am starting to think that every federal election should have random audits. Pick two or three states by lottery.

[TLI]

the Justice Department warned Wednesday that state officials should not assume that it is automatically legal to return to their pre-pandemic policies.

“We didn’t want to sort of give jurisdictions or think jurisdictions should have a safe harbor to say, ‘Because we ran our voting system this way before the pandemic, we’re free to go back to that,’ even if going back to that has a racially discriminatory impact or even if going back to that is, in part, motivated by racial reasons,” the DOJ official said.

OK, the reason to make the changes was due to the "pandemic" but the reason to back to the existing laws governing the election process are now having a "racially discriminatory impact."

MAGIC!

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[a fool in paradise]

>>While the Biden administration “guidance” document carries no formal legal weight

Joseph Stolen has no standing

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“...allowing ballots to be mishandled can violate federal law.”

But Federal law is only enforced against Republicans. The DOJ left that out of their warning.

[S.O.S121.500]

10th Amendment..... Suck it DOJ

[Chode]

i guess they don't consider ILLEGAL VOTING as mishandling of votes...

[M Kehoe]

The Department of Just us.

5.56mm

[Yo-Yo]

Hey, DOJ, unusual elections call for unusual post-election ballot reviews.

[puppypusher]

“The Justice Department on Wednesday issued another warning aimed at states conducting or considering audits of ballots tallied in last year’s election, reminding election authorities that allowing ballots to be mishandled can violate federal law.”

The ballots were already mishandled that’s how the Rats were able to steal the election from President Trump.

There is no way in hell that Biden won that election and he only did it with the Rat operatives in the Justice Dept.

It way past time to Investigate the Dept. of Justice and Disband it totally.

We need to get rid of the Rat termites who have destroyed the Foundation of Justice in the Justice Department.

[cableguymn]

it’s the department of “just us” again.

The us being democrats.