Posted on 10/31/2022 8:07:39 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Justice Department stepped in to an ongoing Arizona election lawsuit Monday, supporting a claim by the League of Women Voters of Arizona that monitoring ballot drop boxes can amount to illegal voter intimidation.
The department said such “vigilante ballot security measures,” including filming voters at drop boxes, probably violates the federal Voting Rights Act.
“When private citizens form ‘ballot security forces’ and attempt to take over the State’s legitimate role of overseeing and policing elections, the risk of voter intimidation — and violating federal law — is significant,” the department said in a “statement of interest” filed in the case.
The League of Women Voters alleged that several organizations planned “widespread campaigns to surveil and intimidate Arizona voters at ballot drop boxes and baselessly accuse them” of voter fraud.
The drop boxes, intended to provide a secure, convenient place to submit ballots, have become a symbol of mistrust in elections among many supporters of former president Donald Trump.
Trump and his allies nationally and in Arizona have urged supporters to monitor outdoor drop boxes, an outgrowth of the discredited film “2000 Mules” that claims drop boxes were stuffed with fraudulent ballots during the 2020 election.
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it is illegal to observe the cheating
Video “pubic areas?”
This election is getting kinky.
AZ and its voters really could care less what the DOJ says.
Is anyone watching the SCIFs where the real cheating occurs??? (just joshin’ with y’all. there’s no cheatin’ goin on.)
How do the feds have a say in how a state runs her elections?
You could have folks vote in person and use paper ballots with a chain of custody to prevent fraud...
Hold on there...that be racist talk.
They’re cracking down on porn?
Exactly how does it "violate" it? Is there a specific law against filming public areas?
I’m pretty sure there was a legal decision a few years ago about when you left your house and were out in the public, you couldn’t prevent someone from taking your photo. I think it had to do with a celebrity who didn’t want his/her picture being taken.
oh golly..and an ID for voting!!!???!!!
Oh wait..you need ID for mandated covid vax
“Wow, the DOJ wants to make it illegal to video pubic areas”
That’s why Chomo Joe likes them young.....
Of course they do - because they SAY so.
There’s no logical rationale to allow unmonitored ballot dropping unless you WANT to cheat!
One should always be about to record what goes on in public.
One should always be able to record what goes on in public.
Yeah, DOJ, put it on your to-do list right after arresting Mark Zuckerberg for spending millions to subvert the 2020 election.
Senator Rogers put Merrick in his place some time ago, when he first tried to creep into Arizona politics.
Rogers said, and I loved her for it, “INTERFERE WITH ARIZONA ELECTIONS AND YOU WILL SEE THE INSIDE OF AN ARIZONA JAIL.”
That may not be exact...but it is CLOSE.
The DOJ wants to make it illegal to vote Republican.
I’ve got an easy solution. Make voting on one day, in a booth, with an actual ballot that is handed to you by election officials.
They want the win so badly they are just making up laws now.
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