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The head of the United States Department of Justice, William Barr, gave them blanket authorization to open investigations into voting irregularities to federal prosecutors across the country.
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump continues to claim that he lost the presidential election due to fraud, but has not presented evidence of this.
Barr, a loyal Trump squire, indicated in his letter to prosecutors across the country that this is not an indication that the Justice Department already has evidence of genuine cases in the election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
But nevertheless, This frees officials from old restrictions on this type of investigation, in the midst of a sharp political debate in the United States in which Republicans denounced that there were illegal votes and illegalities in the count, without providing evidence.
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“Since the voting in the current elections concluded, I authorize you to investigate significant complaints of irregularities in voting and in the counting process, before the certification of the elections in their jurisdictions, “Barr said.
After studying the new rules and their ramifications, I unfortunately have to resign my position
The senior official appointed by Trump told prosecutors that “these investigations or reviews should be conducted when there are clear complaints and apparently credible irregularities, which if proven true, could potentially have an impact on the outcome of the federal election in a given state. “
After this notification, the head of the service responsible for electoral crimes, who oversees fraud investigations, Richard Pilger announced his resignation, according to various national media. Pilger explained his decision in an email sent to his team.
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“After studying the new rules and their ramifications, I unfortunately have to resign my position,” he wrote, according to ‘The New York Times’.
US President-elect Joe Biden, who won the November 3 election.
Usually, fraud investigations are the responsibility of the states, which establish their rules. The policy of the Justice Department thus far has been to wait for the vote counts to be certified, the count is complete and the elections are over before getting involved.
Barr told prosecutors that this practice has never been such a strongly binding rule and that if they see anything that could reverse the results of the November 3 election, they should investigate.
Trump, in an unprecedented position for an American president, still does not recognize the triumph of his rival, insisting on allegations of fraud. But although his team has gone to court, there has been no evidence of significant wrongdoing.
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The president’s team is fighting to challenge the results and reverse them in several key states where Biden won by a narrow margin: Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Arizona. These votes gave the Democrat a majority in the Electoral College enough to win the US presidential election.
AFP
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