DOJ's voter fraud probe issues seven subpoenas to one office, five defendants nationwide

“They send Nevada's own election office seven federal subpoenas but can round up five actual defendants for the whole country — that's not an investigation, that's a paperwork tax on the guy running the ballots you didn't vote for their way. Watch the ratio, not the presser: the subpoenas are the harassment, and they mailed it straight to a Democratic secretary of state's desk two months before your polling place opens.”

Sal

“Seven subpoenas, five defendants — look, that's called leaving no stone unturned. We're being thorough. We're — okay, we're outrunning our own caseload by two, but that just means the fifth defendant is coming any day now. Any day.”

Chip

The receipts

Nevada Democratic election chief says Trump administration hit his office with seven DOJ subpoenas

Washington Examinerright§21:52 EDT

Nevada Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar accused the Trump administration on Friday of flooding election offices with demands ahead of November after his office confirmed it received seven voter-related Justice Department subpoenas over the “last three months.” “The right to vote is written clearly in the constitution, and we…

~~Jayapal and Wyden Demand Probe of 'Unlimited Surveillance' and Subpoena Abuses by Trump Agencies~~ Trump agencies institutionalized secret subpoenas to silence companies, say Jayapal and Wyden

Common Dreams§17:27 EDT

Under the Trump administration, said Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Sen. Ron Wyden this week, federal agencies' use of subpoena power to surveil Americans has become "institutionalized" in what the two Democrats called "brazen abuses of authority." Jayapal (Wash.) and Wyden (Ore.) wrote to US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the…

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