The U.S. Department of Justice on May 5 raised concerns about the ongoing 2020 election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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In a letter (pdf) to Arizona Senate President Karen Fann, DOJ Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela Karlan cited news reports to inquire about the custody of the ballots currently under review by a group of private contractors. Karlan also complained that a portion of the audit work that involves canvassing the addresses on the ballots may amount to “voter intimidation.”
“The first issue relates to a number of reports suggesting that the ballots, elections systems, and election materials that are the subject of the Maricopa County audit are no longer under the ultimate control of state and local elections officials, are not being adequately safeguarded by contractors at an insecure facility, and are at risk of being lost, stolen, altered, compromised, or destroyed,” Karlan wrote, citing a pair of news articles as the source for her allegations.
One of the articles Karlan cited, alleged that there were security lapses in the audit process. The only evidence the article offered for the claim are the opinions of a local Democrat politician and a security expert, both of whom formed their opinions based on a video prepared by a local news channel. The second and third articles Karlan cited were published in January and February, before the venue and the contractors for the audit were selected.
Karlan also raised concerns about a plan by one of the audit contractors, Cyber Ninjas, to verify the validity of certain voter registrations with questionable addresses by dispatching people to verify whether the voter lived at the address on the registrations.
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“This description of the proposed work of the audit raises concerns regarding potential intimidation of voters. The Department enforces a number of federal statutes that prohibit intimidation of persons for voting or attempting to vote,” Karlan wrote, citing a section of the Voting Rights Act which prohibits voter intimidation.
“Past experience with similar investigative efforts around the country has raised concerns that they can be directed at minority voters, which potentially can implicate the anti-intimidation prohibitions of the Voting Rights Act,” Karlan added. “Such investigative efforts can have a significant intimidating effect on qualified voters that can deter them from seeking to vote in the future.”
Fann’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who opposes the audit, wrote on Twitter that she’s “glad to finally see an enforcement agency ready to protect Arizona voters.”
“On the heels of my letter highlighting security shortfalls at the ‘audit’ and potential for voter intimidation, DOJ is raising those same concerns, including that ballots aren’t properly safeguarded,” Hobbs said.
Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers, a Republican, issued on Twitter late on May 5 what appeared to be a warning in response to the DOJ letter. “‘Justice’ Department – you need to stay in your lane. Do not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison,” she wrote.
Former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, a Republican tapped by Fann as the audit’s liaison, told The Epoch Times on May 3 that the audit may last until mid-May, longer than initially expected. The auditors are perusing more than two million ballots cast in Arizona during the 2020 election, along with 385 tabulators and other machines used last year.
The analysis of equipment used in the 2020 election was completed over the weekend. But the review of ballots and other paper materials “might need to be extended a little bit,” Bennett said.
h/t: The Epoch Times
Millions of American voters are fed up with all of the voter fraud and if this fraud is not took care of before long I’m thinking the good people of America will take care of all of this in some way that there will be a whole lot less Democrats left. This is just my opinion.
I don’t see how physical verification of addresses is intimidation–to get my voter registration in NC at an early voting site some years ago, I had to provide the same physical proof of address as I had at the DMV, in person with photo id and other documents. Using things like automatic bill pay and PO boxes can make that simple evidentiary task a little complicated, even more so for women as many acceptable documents, ie bills, with physical addresses carry the names of husbands, parents, or roommates, but most people can find something to qualify. It wouldn’t offend me to have county officials show up at my house to verify my residence–it would relieve me to know they were doing their job.
Why didn’t the DOJ raise these concerns during the election? A day late and a dollar short which tells me this all smoke and mirrors.
GOOD FOR WENDY ROGERS TELLING OFF THE D.O.J. ASSHOLES WHO PROBABLY GOT PAID OFF BY SOROS MONEY OR THE DEEP STATE. THIS RECOUNT IS TOTALLY ARIZONA’S CONCERN, NOT POLITICIANS WHO SUPPORT THE LEFTIST COMMIES… AND EVERY CONCERN THAT THAT CORRUPT ORGANIZATION WHO HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY THE LEFT BROUGHT UP TO CHANGE OR STOP THIS RECOUNT IS ****EXACTLY**** WHAT THE DEMONRATS ARE GUILTY OF COMMITING DURING THE ILLEGAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER. SO BACK OFF AND SHUT UP ALL YOU GRUNTS IN THE DOJ.