At least half a dozen states, including Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia, are said to be reconsidering their legal options against the administration.
“We are considering all options, including legal options against the president and the postmaster general,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday.
“There are a lot of barriers placed by the administration – or that’s trying to force Americans to risk their whole lives to vote, to interfere with the Post Office, to sabotage the way we deliver mail, to falsifications and lies about voting by mail, “Griswold said on AC360 on Friday. “So, I just think it’s so important that every elected official, every election official and every American citizen starts sounding the alarm. The rhetoric coming out of the White House is what you hear under dictatorship, not in the United States. States. We have to act. We can not allow him to tilt this election. “
The Post also reported that the states involved in the talks are expected to announce legal action early this week, according to several people involved in the talks.
A handful of state officials announced their thoughts on Twitter this weekend.
- “Trump is trying to undermine this election – but we will not let him,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.
- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said he “has considered all legal options to protect these elections. … President Trump acknowledged trying to starve USPS of $ so it can not deliver absent votes. His policy petitioner / donor is actively undermining on time delivery of mail. USPS just warned NC about delay of ballot papers, “he wrote.
- “In Arizona, it’s against the law to ‘postpone the delivery of a vote.’ I asked Attorney General Brnovich to investigate recent changes at USPS, and whether the Trump administration has committed a crime or not,” he said. said Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.
Rep. New Jersey’s Bill Pascrell announced Friday that he had made a criminal reference to his state’s attorney general and asked him to order a grand jury to investigate whether the Trump administration has violated any state election legislation.
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