Georgia's Republican-run election board asks Trump's Justice Department to investigate Georgia's elections, which it also runs

…(cont) Four days earlier, another set of Republican officials reached for the same remedy — on themselves.

On October 2, Georgia's State Election Board, which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports is Republican-led, sent a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche. The ask: that the Department of Justice put "additional security measures" on Georgia's voting machines before the midterms. All together now — read the letterhead. It says State Election Board. Read the signature line: James Mills, executive director. Read the address: Georgia. Read the agency being asked to step in: the Department of Justice, under an administration run by the same party that runs that board. The board that certifies Georgia's machines is the board asking someone else to check Georgia's machines.

The letter does not explain why the body that already oversees the system needs a second body to oversee it. It does not have to. Mills signed it. Blanche received it. That is the complete transaction, filed just over a month before voters go to the polls.

And on October 1, the Guardian reported the administration has stepped back from the security bodies built to investigate actual foreign and domestic threats to elections, while administration officials stayed actively focused on unsubstantiated claims of fraud by noncitizens. The threats got less attention. The letterhead got more.

So read it again, clause by clause: the party that runs Georgia's elections asked the party that runs the Justice Department to investigate Georgia's elections. Both parties are the same party. The investigation, should it happen, will be conducted by the people being investigated, at the request of the people being investigated, into the system the people being investigated already run.