DOJ highlights Utah postal worker case as proof of mail-ballot vulnerabilities

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Justice Department official said made the case for stricter regulations of voting. The prosecution of Damon Matai Seei, of Payson, Utah, showed "voting fraud is real," acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter said at a press conference at DOJ headquarters in Washington. Department gave the arrest an unusually high profile, spotlighting the administration's efforts to combat voter fraud after the U.S.

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• He criticized the trial judge who initially blocked the rule, which would have required special tracking and design features, among other things such as creating a national database of eligible voters.
• Unfortunately, but entirely predictably, that regulation was blocked by a judge in Massachusetts.
• … The Trump administration, however, will continue taking aggressive actions to protect our elections." Postal Service rule U.S.
• Using county databases, the clerk found that voter participation was "remarkably low" in the area where complaints originated.
• In an interview with law enforcement, he indicated he did not have a political motive but said he threw away the mail, which also included advertisements, "because he wanted to 'lighten his workload' so he...

What to take from it

3 elections, a provision meant to preserve the status quo because the rule was finalized mere months before the midterms. The regulation was meant to "address the chronically abused mail-in ballot system," McCotter said. "Election integrity should not be a political or partisan issue," McCotter said.

Example or evidence

• Trump DOJ uses case of Utah letter carrier to highlight allegations of voting fraud • Wisconsin Examiner Skip to main content 2:00 republished Federal officials charged a Utah letter carrier Tuesday with...
• The rule included only "modest" technical specifications for a category of mail and should not be interpreted as an election regulation.
• In siding with the Democratic states and voting rights groups who filed suit, Talwani and the U.S.
• Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit said the rule was clearly an attempt to affect election policy and was not restricted to a modest mail regulation.

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"Who could be against properly tracking mail-in ballots? The merits of the case are still being argued. Trump and mail-in voting President Donald Trump has railed against mail-in voting and claimed, without evidence, that it is a major source of election fraud and contributed to his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.

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