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applegrove

(134,076 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 05:44 PM Tuesday

Justice Department Threatens Top Election Officials

Justice Department Threatens Top Election Officials

July 7, 2026 at 5:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/07/justice-department-threatens-top-election-officials/


“The Justice Department sent letters to at least 10 states on Tuesday threatening criminal prosecution of top election officials if ballots cast by noncitizens were counted in upcoming elections,” the New York Times reports.

“The letters arrived in the midst of an ongoing campaign by President Trump and his allies to tighten election rules to prevent a problem that doesn’t exist: widespread noncitizen voting in American elections.”
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Justice Department Threatens Top Election Officials (Original Post) applegrove Tuesday OP
This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba Tuesday #1
Up to this point in time odins folly Tuesday #2
DOJ standared issue usonian Tuesday #3
"Minority Report--2026" (how damned ridiculous) hlthe2b Tuesday #4
Again, they don't need a conviction orthoclad Tuesday #5
Excellent point. applegrove Tuesday #6
Bear with me - I'm not familiar with Kabuki, orthoclad Tuesday #7
Right you are. applegrove Tuesday #8
I guess to expand on what you said it is about pressure points you put on the public. Pressure applegrove Tuesday #10
Yawn newdeal2 Tuesday #9

Response to applegrove (Original post)

odins folly

(683 posts)
2. Up to this point in time
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 05:48 PM
Tuesday

Exactly how many votes have been cast by non-citizens??

Or is this simply a rule/ threat in search of a problem….????

hlthe2b

(115,416 posts)
4. "Minority Report--2026" (how damned ridiculous)
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 05:54 PM
Tuesday

I don't think we are yet at the point where we have to anticipate the intentions of millions of people and act before one even does so*. Maybe Spielberg movies, but at the point some DOJ moron tries to indict, let's see what any and nearly all judges--sick to death of their antics--decide to do.

*States do investigate ballots that cannot be confirmed to be eligible to be cast and they do prosecute. But pre-anticipation and removal of these ballots ahead of time when it is on the order of 1/million? Yeah, right. Let me see a judge who will back you up on this, you assholes. Elections are a state function. Period.

orthoclad

(5,343 posts)
5. Again, they don't need a conviction
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 08:15 PM
Tuesday

just the intimidation. Like all these arrests where the case gets thrown out, the proof ain't the pudding, the fear is.

Hmm. I wonder what law they are breaking with this letter? Can States threaten back? But then it comes down to who has the firepower.

orthoclad

(5,343 posts)
7. Bear with me - I'm not familiar with Kabuki,
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 10:41 PM
Tuesday

could you expand on this?

The fear is not performative. It is real, induced by threats and arrests, even if those threats and arrests do not result in jail time, but in sleepless nights or legal bill impoverishment.

: )

applegrove

(134,076 posts)
10. I guess to expand on what you said it is about pressure points you put on the public. Pressure
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 11:01 PM
Tuesday

points that feel like fear or anger or love when it is all manipulation meant to move the public in a certain direction or another: fear bombing or hate bombing or love bombing. The pressure point may be performative from the point of view of the person initiating the emotions/reactions, a psychopath of one type or another, but it sure feels real. I should know better than to forget the victims of such action. I've had to live with it since I was 30.

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