I’d be good with Dowless getting a slap on the wrist if he could implicate much bigger fish. Sadly this one likely just represents local shenanigans.
So the DOJ will somehow blame Hillary and email server best practices? This is such an obvious case of GOP rat-f**king that the only possible purpose the DOJ can have is to muck things up and somehow get the Republican appointed.
I think that the most we can expect out of this is for Dowless to flip and implicate Harris.
Note that this is coming from DoJ Election Integrity Section in DC, not the U.S. Attorney in the EDNC. Most people here know this, but the EDNC U.S. Attorney is a hard right partisan who’s been one of the only AUSA’s willing to play the “Illegal Alienz iz Votin’!” in-person voter fraud is a thing game. He’s been in a lengthy wrangle with the state over a demand for a vast amount of Board of Elections voting data. His failure to address this actual vote fraud has been conspicuous.
Fairness compels to say whether DC stepped in because of his inaction or his inaction is due to DC saying “we got this,” or, indeed, whether he called them in in the first place, is unknown, and any of these could be the case.
This is one of those cases where investigating the investigators is a solid idea.
The NC Board of Election broke this fraud open and nullified the election.
So they’ve made a federal federal case of it? Thanks for pointing it out; I was going to snark on Higdon moving from inaction to slow-rolling, but apparently he’s (still) out of play.
serve as a strong deterrent to future elections fraud.
I appreciate that the elections board uses the correct term: election(s) fraud, not voter fraud.
One other thought, would the employment of Harris’ by the EDNC DA be enough reason to have a different organization conduct the investigation?