C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
āIn January, the Franklin County Board of Elections in Ohio received a surprising call.
The man on the line said he was an agent at the Department of Homeland Security ā and he needed immediate access to voter records. Franklin County has a large population of Democrats and has long been a focal point of Republican skepticism about urban voting centers in Ohio.
In the weeks that followed, the requests multiplied. According to emails reviewed by Reuters, the agent asked for voter registration forms and voting histories for dozens of voters ā records that include driver's license numbers and other confidential data. He pressed for information about local voterāregistration groups, describing the request as an āinvestigationā and āvery time sensitive.ā But he offered no explanation for what prompted his probe or where it was headed.
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The Ohio episode is part of a larger pattern Reuters found in at least eight states: a wider-than-known federal push into the machinery and conduct of U.S. elections, which since the founding of the republic in 1789 have been run by states and local governments. Trump administration officials and investigators have fanned out across the country, seeking confidential records, pressing for access to voting equipment and re-examining voter-fraud cases that courts and bipartisan reviews have already rejected.ā
This comes as no surprise, of course.
The Trump regimesā contempt for the right to vote and will of the people is well established.
J6 was just the beginning of Trumpās efforts to destroy our democratic institutions.
The man on the line said he was an agent at the Department of Homeland Security ā and he needed immediate access to voter records. Franklin County has a large population of Democrats and has long been a focal point of Republican skepticism about urban voting centers in Ohio.
In the weeks that followed, the requests multiplied. According to emails reviewed by Reuters, the agent asked for voter registration forms and voting histories for dozens of voters ā records that include driver's license numbers and other confidential data. He pressed for information about local voterāregistration groups, describing the request as an āinvestigationā and āvery time sensitive.ā But he offered no explanation for what prompted his probe or where it was headed.
[ā¦]
The Ohio episode is part of a larger pattern Reuters found in at least eight states: a wider-than-known federal push into the machinery and conduct of U.S. elections, which since the founding of the republic in 1789 have been run by states and local governments. Trump administration officials and investigators have fanned out across the country, seeking confidential records, pressing for access to voting equipment and re-examining voter-fraud cases that courts and bipartisan reviews have already rejected.ā
This comes as no surprise, of course.
The Trump regimesā contempt for the right to vote and will of the people is well established.
J6 was just the beginning of Trumpās efforts to destroy our democratic institutions.
