Biden DOJ Threatens States against Election Audits, New Voting Laws

Raymond Wolfe : Aug 10, 2021
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"You should not assume that if you abandon the practices that have made it easier for people to vote, that abandonment is not going to get scrutiny from the Department of Justice," a DOJ official warned.

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a guidance on July 28 threatening legal action against state election audits and new voter integrity laws, amid new revelations about irregularities in the 2020 presidential election. (Screengrab image)

The two documents warned states that election investigations could lead to federal prosecution and that re-adoption of voting rules in place from before COVID-19 would merit inspection by the DOJ.

"The guidances issued today describe certain federal laws that help ensure free, fair, and secure elections," Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a July press release. "Where violations of such laws occur, the Justice Department will not hesitate to act."

"Election audits are exceedingly rare," the DOJ's guidance on post-election audits stated. "But the Department is concerned that some jurisdictions conducting them may be using, or proposing to use, procedures that risk violating the Civil Rights Act."

The guidance stressed the need to maintain the chain of custody of ballots—a significant problem among Democrat-led counties that relied heavily on mail-in voting last year—and cited "proposals to contact individuals face to face."

"There have been reports, with respect to some of the post-2020 ballot examinations, of proposals to contact individuals face to face to see whether the individuals were qualified voters who had actually voted," the DOJ guidance said, pointing to a statement of work by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based IT firm currently leading an election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Cyber Ninjas' statement of work discussed using in-person interviews in precincts to help verify election integrity, though that practice does not appear to have ever been used in audit. The DOJ's election audit guidance cited no actual violations of the law, Just the News noted... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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