DOJ, election workers
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President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withhold some federal funding from states that don't make changes to voting practices and is warning state election officials that they face arrest if they don’t remove noncitizens from voter rolls.
The ruling cast serious doubts on the department’s efforts to reinvestigate the race, finding that it was too late to bring criminal charges in the case.
Election officials in all 50 states got letters threatening to prosecute them if ballots cast by noncitizens were counted in upcoming elections.
Detroit election officials accused the Justice Department of using “thin gruel” to create a “pretext” to justify sending voting
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.
The U.S. Department of Justice intends to place federal election monitors in East Lansing, Detroit and Lansing. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel say the DOJ's letters to three Michigan cities are based on unfounded accusations about the November 2024 election.
By this point in a typical election year, federal intelligence officials would have briefed Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and other election officials on emerging threats to the November election.
An experiment invited notables to respond in real time to hypothetical election threats such as federal seizure of uncounted ballots. Don't assume safeguards will protect American voting.
