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Posted on 10/07/2020 5:39:22 PM PDT by be-baw
For decades, federal prosecutors have been told not to mount election fraud investigations in the final months before an election for fear they could depress voter turnout or erode confidence in the results. Now, the Justice Department has lifted that prohibition weeks before the presidential election.
The move comes as President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr have promoted a false narrative that voter fraud is rampant, potentially undermining Americans’ faith in the election.
A Justice Department lawyer in Washington said in a memo to prosecutors on Friday that they could investigate suspicions of election fraud before votes are tabulated. That reversed a decades-long policy that largely forbade aggressively conducting such inquiries during campaigns to keep their existence from becoming public and possibly “chilling legitimate voting and campaign activities” or “interjecting the investigation itself as an issue” for voters.
The memo creates “an exception to the general non-interference with elections policy” for suspicions of election fraud, particularly misconduct by federal government workers, including postal workers or military employees; both groups transport mail-in ballots. The exception allows investigators to take overt investigative steps, like questioning witnesses, that were previously off limits in such inquiries until after election results were certified.
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Virtual fish wrap.
Must be over the target...
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Because the yellow-backed GOPee scumbags didn't want to rock their cashcow guaranteed paycheck boat.
Sorry, GOPee boys and girls - Trump has exposed your little act - the pretend "opposition" party who are just there for the paycheck.
Eff you scumbags.
The Slimes is a fake narrative.
NYT doesn’t know about the ballots in ditch or more than one ballot per dem? Or maybe they didn’t hear about all the dead people voting. Ballots found in dumpsters-NYT is spreading a false narrative.
The prospect that the Justice Department might investigate crimes is very distressing to the NYT.
Can we blame the masses for their hate when we have the msm and press lying 24/7? They are Equally responsible for the state of affairs.
Condolences.
Why would you do that?
Spam they will, and you can post the juicier spams here. Someone had to take one for the team, I guess.
And many people in positions of power.
Lock all of the NYT peeps up.
But right wing extremists are a HUGE problem.
Yeah right...
Rethugicans need to investigate every single address versus the census then go from there. There must be some way to check if 8 people voted from the same address, then check if any of them live there
I'm sure we're counted as a "subscriber" for the WSJ's stupid advertisers.
If there is no problem, then certainly an investigation would prove that hmmm? You can’t simply make it up? So hmmm, why would the NYT and other liberals have a problem with investigating aggressively the potential for voter fraud?
The Nazi Times
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