Attorney General Merrick Garland laid out on Friday a muscular approach he says the Justice Department will take to protect the right to vote. In a policy speech at the department’s D.C. headquarters, Garland addressed not only the slew of restrictive voting measures advancing in GOP statehouses, but the harassment of election officials and the recent phenomena of dubious post-election “audits” that cast doubt on the 2020 results.
“We have not been blind to the dramatic increase in menacing and violent threats against all manner of state and local election workers, ranging from the highest administrators to volunteer poll workers,” Garland said. “Such threats undermine our electoral process, and violate a myriad of federal laws.”
Any intrepid reporters at that presser ask if this includes Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham?
I would’ve liked to have heard that there’s a Lear Jet loaded with US Marshals headed for Phoenix Intl this afternoon, to explain US election law to the Cyber Ninjas inside the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in no uncertain terms.
As for the drive for more post-election audits, which Garland described as fueled by “disinformation,” their “abnormal” methodologies “may put the integrity of the voting process at risk and undermine public confidence in our democracy.”
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