Merrick Garland threatens prison time for organizers of ‘Election Forensic Audits’…

citizenfreepress.com ^ | 08.03.2021 | Kane

[Bonemaker]

“Would be quite the turning point showdown between states rights and the fed gov.”

The South tried to warn us.

[ifinnegan]

So now you’re full on pimping for Biden/Obama Cartel, trying to deny that they are putting “Federal Law Constraints on Post-Election ‘Audits’”.

[Mariner]

“So now you’re full on pimping for Biden/Obama Cartel, trying to deny that they are putting “Federal Law Constraints on Post-Election ‘Audits’”.

I’m pretty sure stupid people think that.

But I don’t care.

[rx]

Regarding your tagline, rxsid:

One of Barry's former classmates related: "And he told us that his father was an Indonesian king and that he was a prince, and after he finished school he was going to go back, and he would be a ruler in Indonesia."

King Obama will make the law, interpret the law, and if he so chooses, enforce the law. His 'ends justify the means' approach is exactly the type of Executive mentality our system of government was designed to discourage." Even Karl Rove, a staunch proponent of amnesty for illegal aliens, said, "the way Obama is doing this is like a king.

British kings didn’t have to stand for election. By contrast, an election gives an American president a political legitimacy British kings never had.

George Mason foresaw this in the 1787 Convention that gave us our Constitution. The American president would be an “elective monarch,” he said, and added that that would be worse than the real thing.

The long arc of American constitutional government has bent from the monarchical principle of the colonial period to the separation of powers, and now back again to crown government and rule by a single person. While this didn’t start with Obama, he’s taken it to an entirely new level.

He made and unmade laws without the consent of Congress; he spent trillions of government dollars; and the greatest of decisions, whether to commit his country to war or lay down our arms, was made by him alone. His ability to reward friends and punish enemies has exceeded anything seen in the past. He is rex quondam, rex futurus – the once and future king, now in his third term.

Pre-dating Monarchy's loss of their American colonies in the US Revolutionary War, the monarchy similarly has never quite got over their loss in 1215 at Runnymede when King John signed the document below:

That's what the Rhodes Scholarship program is all about and 1912 elimination of the opposition to their 1913 banker take-over as the US's private money manipulators, known as the Federal Reserve.

Barry used the British military intel operatives arrayed with our own top-secret gear against the US citizenry in the the election fraud event known as "The Fuddy Hoax," 12/11/2013. Since we didn't put a stop to Barry and his Brit overlords in 2013, we and PDJT were forced to endure more MI6 mayhem via Christopher Steel, James Corney, HRC and the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax. Even more recently, the Brits were at it again in the cheating foreign influence of Election 2020.

[ifinnegan]

Why are you defending this DoJ missive?

[nesnah]

Why are you defending this DoJ missive?

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Because he/she/it is another of the FR Tories and/or outright FRauds.

Just another troll......

[dangus]

“Every officer of election shall retain and preserve... all records and papers which come into his possession relating to any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in such election...”

->Makes no mention of ballots.

“...except that, when required by law, such records and papers may be delivered to another officer of election and except that, if a State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico designates a custodian to retain and preserve these records and papers at a specified place, then such records and papers may be deposited with such custodian, and the duty to retain and preserve any record or paper so deposited shall devolve upon such custodian.”

-> Therein an auditor acts according to the state law. There is no mention that the law needs to be a federal law, and, in fact, it presumably will not be one.

“Any officer of election or custodian who willfully fails to comply with this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

-> “Willfully” plainly means deliberately. Any accidental failure by an auditor due to an unforeseen circumstance or even merely a hardship of conducting the legally required audit plainly in no way constitutes “willfull.”

“Any person, whether or not an officer of election or custodian, who willfully steals, destroys, conceals, mutilates, or alters any record or paper required by section 20701 of this title to be retained and preserved shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

-> The Justice Department’s assertion “Violators of either section can face fines of up to $1000 and imprisonment of up to one year for each violation” is misleadingly and threateningly ambiguous when it adds “for each violation,” a phrase that does not exist in the code, and which could falsely be interpreted as implying that the destruction of multiple records could result in multiple years’ sentence.

And where are the prosecutions for all those videotaped lapses that showed the need for the audit in the first place?

[grumpygresh]

Open season on those at the DOJ is in order. Criminalizing investigation of the criminals running DOJ is s as declaration or war against the people.
We really should be finding out where these criminals live and where their kids go to school.

[ifinnegan]

Yes. Mariner was an original Covid fear propagandist in January 2020.

[Luke21]

Democrats also have a totally supportive media. Republicans can’t move an inch without being shredded, and most of the GOP doesn’t even try.

[rxsid]

This is an attempt by the DOJ to intimidate the states to not pursue election audits.

Some headlines after the DOJ released those statements:

DOJ Warns States Not To Pursue Their Own Arizona-Style Election Audits (Jul 28, 2021,01:24pm EDT)

DOJ fires warning shot against ‘unusual’ post-election ballot reviews (07/28/2021 12:00 PM EDT)

US Justice Department Warns States Over Post-Election Audits(July 28, 2021 04:48 PM)

DOJ issues warnings to states on voting laws and audits(07/28/21 12:00 PM EDT)

Justice Department puts states on notice about post-election audits and election law changes(Updated 12:21 PM ET, Wed July 28, 2021)

[Fireone]

He’ll be the first one seated during “pack the court” game that’s coming.

[Luke21]

He’s a troll. I keep a list and after about ten to fifteen Democrat or Rino type posts, I no longer pay attention to them and certainly don’t answer them. I wish we had a block or mute function here.

[rxsid]

Yup. And poor Soebarkah can't even claim to be the first sitting "president" to have his "natural born Citizen"[1] eligibility questioned.

Chester Arthur owns that distinction.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

This clown coulda been on the Supreme Court!

[oldbill]

When do these people put on their SS and Gestapo uniforms?

[kaboom]

“organizers of election audits” would likely be classified as "custodians", and subject to the terms below.

If a state or local election authority designates some other individual or organization to take custody of the election records covered by Section 301, then the Civil Rights Act provides that the “duty to retain and preserve any record or paper so deposited shall devolve upon such custodian.” 52 U.S.C. § 20701.

Section 301 itself makes it a federal crime for “[a]ny officer of election” or “custodian” of election records to willfully fail to comply with the retention and preservation requirements. 52 U.S.C. § 20701. Second, Section 302 provides that any “person, whether or not an officer of election or custodian, who willfully steals, destroys, conceals, mutilates, or alters any record or paper” covered by Section 301’s retention and preservation requirement is subject to federal criminal penalties. Id. § 20702. Violators of either section can face fines of up to $1000 and imprisonment of up to one year for each violation.

[Magnum44]

Maybe. At the very least we are way past tar and feather time.

[ifinnegan]

Yep.

[matthew fuller]

Just might be a fight over this.....