Posted on 03/16/2022 1:40:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
More than a dozen House Democrats are calling on the Department of Justice to address "insider threats" that they say candidates for state and local election posts, who believe the 2020 election was stolen, pose to the nation's election systems.
"Unfortunately, many of the candidates seeking to fill newly vacated state and local election posts support former President Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen," wrote the Democrats, including Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
Reps. Deborah Ross of North Carolina, Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Terri Sewell of Alabama are co-leaders on the letter.
"We are concerned that this new cohort of election officials may be inclined to abuse their authority to directly influence the results of future elections," they wrote.
The lawmakers suggest that there is an "active effort to recruit and convince election officials at all levels of governance to sabotage future elections by spreading conspiracy theories and promoting the claims of election deniers."
In addition to pointing to local examples in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Colorado, the lawmakers say that "at least ten candidates running for secretary of state and eight running for state attorney general across the country back false claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate."
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Sorry Dems, but your Federal election takeover bill failed. The states run elections, not the DOJ, so the DOJ can go back to finding excuses to not prosecute corrupt politicians, that seems to be their specialty.
Well, hold on now, maybe they should investigate and try to prosecute some of these people.
You see, if someone is charged with a crime for saying “the 2020 election was stolen”, then they would have to be allowed to present evidence in court that the 2020 election was stolen, since if their claim is true, then that’s an “affirmative defense”.
If the court won’t let them present that argument, then the case gets thrown out on appeal as a mistrial, and if they do let them present that argument, then the evidence for the 2020 fraud will finally get presented in a court of law and read into the official record.
Smell that ?
That’s the smell of fear.
The jigs up D.C.
No more phoney bullsh!t artists.
You’all better just ‘ learn to code’.
Well, actually no one would tryst you to code.
As a matter of fact, no one will ever trust any of you for anything ever again.
Maybe ya’all can get coyote work with the cartels.
Oh, wait.
Well at least we won’t be paying your wage after we vote you all out.
will this cover those who believed in election fraud in 2016?
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