Posted on 03/18/2022 8:52:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
More than a dozen House Democrats are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address "insider threats to election systems," which they say are posed by candidates who are running to fill local election positions motivated by former President Trump's false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland dated Wednesday, the Democratic lawmakers said they are worried that those candidates may attempt to influence the outcomes of future races if they are installed as election officials.
"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," the lawmakers wrote. "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 pointed to "the recent resurgence of anti-democratic tactics among election officials in key battleground states," adding that they are "deeply concerned about bad actors who may dismiss their legal obligations in order to secure victory for their favored candidate or candidates."
The House members said 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," pointing to incidents in Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania and various races for secretary of state and state attorney general.
Trump has consistently argued that the 2020 presidential election was riddled with fraud, despite William Barr, Trump's own attorney general, announcing in December 2020 that there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would have altered the outcome of the race.
The lawmakers are specifically asking that the DOJ prioritize efforts to protect the integrity of the electoral system and work with states to probe and prosecute individuals who try to distort a fair and truthful tabulation.
They also called on the department to consider additional steps such as deploying nonpartisan election monitors to polling sites.
A DOJ spokesperson told The Hill in a statement on Wednesday that "the Department has received the letter and will review it."
Democratic Reps. Deborah Ross (N.C.), Adam Schiff (Calif.), Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) and Terri Sewell (Ala.) led the letter, which was also signed by Democratic Reps. Tony Cardenas (Calif.), André Carson (Ind.), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Fla.), Mark DeSaulnier (Calif.), Dwight Evans (Pa.), Mondaire Jones (N.Y.), Jim McGovern (Mass.), Joe Neguse (Colo.), Marie Newman (Ill.), Katie Porter (Calif.), Lucille Roybal-Allard (Calif.), Mary Gay Scanlon (Pa.), Eric Swalwell (Calif.) and Nikema Williams (Ga.).
- Updated at 4:47 p.m.
They’re running scared and damn well should be.
They know their gig is up.
The criminals complain that the victims will be apprehending them this time.
Wisconsin seems to have not only the goods, but the methods that were used as well. Clock is running short Democrats & RINOs.
Somebody, somewhere is sounding somewhat insecure
Wow, how un american of the dims.
Inner threats?
You mean like a FBI and DOJ who hide evidence—See Biden Laptop— of criminal democratic party conspiracy?
Or, like Democrats who helped, along with Communist entities, to fund, support, give legal support, and drop criminal charges against American Terrorist groups like BLM and Antifa?
Or like the DOJ who essentially refused to prosecute Criminal conspiracy for Political wire tapping and spying on the Trump Campaign.
Or are they talking about massive vote buying, illegal and organized changing of voter laws without consent of the state legislatures, or just old fashioned illegal ballot harvesting, or encouraging illegals to vote?
I hope they are talking about doing something about that!! If they are talking about punishing the people who have brought the aforementioned up, we already live in a Fascist state.
Russia helped Trump steal the 2016 election! Arrest the colluders! Oh wait, never mind.
C'mon, people. DOJ is FULL-TIME busy investigating Hunter Biden, his piles of cash, his firearms, and the strippers (licensed?) he has left everywhere in his trail.
GO LAWMEN!!
Notice the use of the word “false” in the article. This is classic gaslighting by the media. It’s designed to portray something as fact even though the opposite is true, or at the very least it most certainly has not been proven that there wasn’t election fraud. To any objective observer it appears highly likely there was significant election fraud.
Any time I see a statement like this I automatically dismiss the article as propaganda.
The ‘RATs are starting to panic about their futures after the midterms. A lot of them are going to have to get REAL jobs where you have to work for a living and nobody kisses your ass for handouts paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. We’ve got “Car Shield” and “Home Shield”. Now we need “RAT Job Shield” for RAT politicians.
It's The Hill.................so it is..............
I remember a constant drumbeat from the Democrats and the media about how the 2000 election, the 2004 election and the 2016 election was rigged and we need to “Resist!” the system.
The Dems just can’t fathom someone wanting to do something for the good of the people and not for gaining money or power through nefarious means.
I’d like to see those who made the request investigated....
The writer graduated from GW in 2020. A committed lying, brainwashed Commie.
So they are conspiracy theorists damming conspiracy theorists as conspirators?
Only because they want to find out how to get in on the deal. :)
To the alphabet agencies monitoring this site. The guy next to you is an insider threat who one day will act directly against you! Sleep well tonight knowing this fact.
NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE ILLEGAL...........................
How about investigating those who denied the results of the 2016 election?
Crimes were actually committed, after all.
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