General Electile Dysfunction: an election that lasts longer than 4 days is a serious medical problem

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BeardOfKnowledge

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I think I've decided that if I had a time machine to go to one place, it would be NYC on 9/12/2001. I would then find Rudy Giuliani and tell him what 2016-2020 was going to hold for him.
 
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There's already a procedure in place. It is designed to protect against the party in power from manipulating election results on their own behalf against the party competing against them.

That has been weakened.
Whitehouse using Justice Department and via DOJ is bypassing historical norms designed to prevent exactly this.

www.nytimes.com

Barr Hands Prosecutors the Authority to Investigate Voter Fraud Claims (Published 2020)

The attorney general said that he had authorized “instances” of investigative steps but that inquiries should not be based on specious claims.
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Mr. Barr’s directive ignored the Justice Department’s longstanding policies intended to keep law enforcement from affecting the outcome of an election. And it followed a move weeks before the election in which the department lifted a prohibition on voter fraud investigations before an election.

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Mr. Barr has privately told department officials in the days since the election that any disputes should be resolved in court by the campaigns themselves, according to three people briefed on the conversations. He has said that he did not see massive fraud, and that most of the allegations of voter fraud were related to individual instances that did not point to a larger systemic problem, the people said.
But critics of Mr. Barr immediately condemned the memo as a political act that undermined the Justice Department’s typical independence from the White House.

“It would be problematic enough if Barr were reversing longstanding Justice Department guidance because of significant, substantiated claims of misconduct — that could presumably be handled at the local and state level,” said Stephen I. Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
“But to do so when there is no such evidence — and when the president’s clear strategy is to delegitimize the results of a proper election — is one of the more problematic acts of any attorney general in my lifetime,” Mr. Vladeck added.
Mr. Pilger, a career prosecutor in the department’s Public Integrity Section who oversaw voting-fraud-related investigations, told colleagues he would move to a nonsupervisory role working on corruption prosecutions.
“Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications,” he wrote, “I must regretfully resign from my role as director of the Election Crimes Branch.” A Justice Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Mr. Pilger’s message.
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