Posted on 05/07/2021 2:13:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The U.S. Department of Justice expressed concern about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate's unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County.
In a letter to GOP Senate President Karen Fann, the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said the Senate's farming out of 2.1 million ballots from the state's most populous county to a contractor may run afoul of federal law requiring ballots to remain in the control of elections officials for 22 months.
“Past experience with similar investigative efforts around the country has raised concerns that they can be directed at minority voters, which potentially can implicate the anti-intimidation prohibitions of the Voting Rights Act,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela Karlan wrote. “Such investigative efforts can have a significant intimidating effect on qualified voters that can deter them from seeking to vote in the future.”
Karlan wants Fann to lay out how the Senate and its contractors will ensure federal laws are followed. She pointed to news reports showing lax security at the former basketball arena where the ballots are being recounted by hand.
Fann said Senate attorneys were working on a response she promised to share when it was completed.
The Justice Department letter came six days after voting rights groups asked federal officials to intervene or send monitors to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix at the state fairgrounds, where the ballots are being recounted.
Trump and his backers have alleged without evidence that he lost Arizona and other battleground states because of fraud. Fann said she wants to prove one way or the other whether GOP claims of problems with the vote are valid and use the results of the audit to craft updated election laws.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
In other words, they are afraid they are going to jail.
>> the Brennan Center for Justice.
Stalinist scumbags protecting Joseph Stolen.
Bingo!
Assorted Prostitutes repeats this big lie as oftern as they can in their biased ?reporting"
They are clearly propping up the leftist lie.
Just figuring out how they can send swat teams and amphibious operations into the arena to confiscate all evidence...(just like they do when the arrest 70 year olds in the middle of the night.)
Getting the ‘intel’ from news reports...”She pointed to news reports showing lax security”.
“U.S. Justice Department worried about Arizona Senate recount”
When did this become a ‘recount’? I thought it was an audit, you know an exercise to see if the proper (quality) controls are in place. A recount implies possibly flipping an election...no one is talking that, as far as I can tell at least.
No bias there, just keep pushing the Big Lie to try and silence those that do not agree.
so they're concerned about the very PUBLIC with LIVE WEB CAMS recount done in front of EVERYBODY yet they didn't say a word when legal poll watchers were shut out of watching the counts of ballots....
they weren't concerned when nazi's with guns were threatening people in Philly...
they weren't concerned that there is a signed confession from an Italian vote rigger to what he did to change the votes...
“...send swat teams and amphibious operations...”
Good luck to them on that “amphibious operations” thing in in the deserts of AZ.
Total Bull Stuff!
Any conclusions will be subject to judicial review. The
guilty will be sure of that.
The state has “plenary” power where fed elections are concerned & the AZ Sstate Senate called for the audit - DOJ has no standing, from what I’m hearing. Feckless vile Joebama has weaponized the DOJ ... he needs all the political capital he can get & if the audit shows massive fraud, his illegitimacy is front and center. Everyone on the left (WH, DOJ, lap dog media) is freaking out.
Will the DOJ go to court and try to get a TRO? The guys doing the audit in AZ expect they will try.
Steve Bannon’s War Room is a great place to keep up with what is going on in AZ - lots of interviews just every day with key players. DOJ (& Dem Secty of State letter) are being discussed.
Reference:
In United States constitutional law, plenary power is a power that has been granted to a body or person in absolute terms, with no review of or limitations upon the exercise of that power. The assignment of a plenary power to one body divests all other bodies from the right to exercise that power, where not otherwise entitled. Plenary powers are not subject to judicial review in a particular instance or in general.
PLENARY POWER: Legislatures Have It
https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2020/12/plenary-power-legislatures-have-it/
They will come in with weapons, just like they did with Elian Gonzales.
Filthy B@$t@rd!
Filthy B@$t@rd$
This is what happens when you don’t have an opposition party. Dems fight for real while the GOP play fights.
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