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There is widespread doubt that the seized records will produce any evidence of prosecutable criminal activity, and not just because the 2020 election results have been recounted, audited, and litigated to death already.
But 2020 isn’t the investigation’s real target — 2026 is.
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s involvement in the FBI’s raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, suggests the Justice Department and FBI intend to allege that foreign interference led to Trump’s loss in Georgia in 2020.
A state investigation has unraveled the latest noncitizen voting conspiracy theory pushed by Michigan Republicans.
Should the Trump administration try to interfere with the midterm elections, Democratic states will be ready, according to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon.
The 2020 election records are still sealed, two County Commissioners allege.
Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office.
The DOJ opened an investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia late last year.
A group of North Carolina students sued Republican state officials to restore early voting sites on three college campuses across the state, including at the U.S.’ largest historically Black college.
The U.S. Justice Department refiled its lawsuit seeking access to Georgia’s unredacted voter records, after a federal judge tossed the department’s initial case for being filed in the wrong district.
Maureen Riordan, the veteran election lawyer whose appointment as Acting Chief of the Department of Justice’s voting section symbolized the department’s sharp anti-voting shift, is no longer at DOJ, the department said.