Posted on 09/05/2018 7:23:32 PM PDT by TigerClaws
ICE investigators are ordering elections officials in 44 North Carolina counties to turn over election documents dating back five years.
An assistant U.S. Attorney issued subpoenas to the Boards of Elections in all 44 counties in the state's Federal Eastern District.
RELATED: 19 foreign nationals charged with illegal voting in North Carolina
The subpoenas were issued on behalf of the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency.
The boards have until Sept. 25 to provide "any and all poll books, e-poll books, voting records, and/or voter authorization documents, and executed official ballots (including absentee official ballots)" that were submitted to, filed by, received by and/or maintained by the boards from Aug. 30, 2013 through Aug. 30, 2018.
The U.S. Attorney's Office also issued a subpoena for information from the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
"The bigger concern here how this is going to affect all these counties in eastern North Carolina in terms of resources and the ongoing threat of restrictions at the polls and voter intimidation," said John Carella, a voting rights staff attorney with the Durham-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
In a statement sent to the boards of elections in the 44 impacted counties, obtained by our media partners at the News and Observer, Josh Lawson, the general counsel for the state elections board wrote, "In our view, compliance with the subpoena as-written will materially affect the ability of county administrators to perform time-critical tasks ahead of absentee voting and early voting."
The State Board of Elections plans to discuss the subpoena during a conference call on Friday.
Southern Coalition for Social Justice recently represented a dozen people charged in Alamance County for ineligible voting due to felony probations. In those cases, felony charges were dismissed in exchange for misdemeanor pleas, and none of the 12 people served any jail time.
Carella believes the subpoenas are aimed at serving a larger purpose than ineligible voting.
"It is an attempt to stoke the fires and to create this idea that voter ID and other kind of restrictions would be appropriate," Carella said.
Federal investigators are ordering that agency to turn over eight different types of documents including voter registration applications, federal write-in ballots, and admission or denial forms for non-citizens dating from Jan. 1, 2010 to Aug. 30, 2018.
Click here for links to the documents.
(too soon?)
Heheheh,
The “blue wave” is hitting the Trump breakwater.
MAGA!
Holey Moley. They found a legal point of entry
N-i-c-e work, ICE.
I never thought ICE would be the mechanism to see what sort of voter fraud was happening, but I’m incredibly happy about it!
ICE might save the country... maybe they can replace the criminals at the FBI... clean sweep.
Apparently, DHS is doing its job. Wish we could say the same of DoJ.
Let’s see how long the courts are used against ICE. I’m all for the ICE Team!
The crack down begins. It will be brutal.
The crack down begins. It will be brutal.
The crack down begins. It will be brutal.
That is excellent. :D
Lock the ‘Rat SC crooks up...
I certainly hope so. But do our guys know how to do brutal?
Plus, any prosecutions will have to go through the Department of Justice, which is still controlled by the Dems.
a year ago 17 states refused to respond to the federal investigation on voter fraud. What wasn’t anything done about that?
BS they should have done it a year ago when 17 states refused to turn over their records of voter fraud. A year late and dollar short.
could have had a clean election this year, but too late.
Oh, Trump knows how to do brutal. And he has ICE completely on board with him.
Buckle your seats the next 2 months..
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