The DOJ is ‘looking into’ voter fraud allegations that were raised by the Trump campaign yesterday in Nevada, according to the WSJ:
A DOJ official said the agency is looking into allegations of voter fraud in Nevada raised by the Trump campaign, though department policy generally prohibits opening a probe into election-related crimes until after the elex is complete & results certified.https://t.co/Xtl4z15Mzw
— Sadie Gurman (@sgurman) November 6, 2020
Here’s more:
A Justice Department official said the agency is looking into allegations of voter fraud in Nevada after attorneys for the state’s GOP and the Trump campaign sent Attorney General William Barr a letter Thursday detailing what they said were votes cast by people who appear to have left the state.
The official confirmed the department had received the letter but declined to provide other details. The attorneys said in the letter that there were 3,062 individuals who allegedly voted by mail fraudulently. The identified voters appear to have left the state, the letter said, based on a search of a national change-of-address database.
A Justice Department policy says officials cannot open an investigation into election-related criminal behavior until after the election is complete and the results are certified, so as not to give the appearance that the department is trying to impact the outcome. A memo circulated within the department last month provided several exceptions, but the types of allegations at issue in Nevada are not among them.
The allegations are also the subject of a Republican-backed lawsuit filed late Thursday in federal court in Nevada. Without naming the Trump campaign as a plaintiff, the suit alleged that more than 3,000 ballots in Clark County were cast on behalf of ineligible voters, including some who were deceased. The six-page complaint, brought by two individuals with alleged grievances and two congressional candidates, offered few specifics.
The suit also raised problems with a machine used to verify signatures and the public’s access to the counting process, two areas of complaint that had already been rejected in a state-court lawsuit.
President Trump has alleged widespread voter fraud. A Justice Department spokeswoman on Thursday said the agency “pursues all actionable information it receives and, as is always the case, encourages anyone who suspects a federal crime to report it to their local FBI office.”
I get that the DOJ doesn’t want to “give the appearance that the department is trying to impact the outcome”, but this is of massive importance and we can’t just investigate this afterward. By then it’s too late and they’ve already succeeded in throwing the election. Sure you can punish people afterward, even heavily, but that is of little consolation to the 60 million Americans have been given the shaft.
So yes, I’m glad they are ‘looking into’ these voter fraud allegations, but they need to do much more. Barr himself suggested that there could be massive voter fraud, so I know he gets it. Time to act.