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United States Attorney General William Barr after a meeting with Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday.
Joe Biden is eager to initiate a transfer of power. But the federal authority announcing a winner in the election has yet to do so and Attorney General William Barr is urging prosecutors to investigate possible voter fraud.
In the Democratic field, the impatience begins to spread: Joe Biden and his team want to start the process of transfer of power in Washington.
An aide to the incoming US president says they are urging the federal agency GSA to recognize Biden as the winner of the US election, which has yet to happen.
It is the GSA that formally proclaims a winner and it is not until this happens that the transfer of power can begin.
Open investigations
The Biden camp is said to be now considering legal action to persuade the GSA to declare Biden the next president of the United States, as they believe there is sufficient evidence for this.
At the same time, the United States Attorney General, William Barr, has granted federal prosecutors permission to initiate investigations into whether there has been voter fraud, as President Donald Trump claims.
In a letter to US prosecutors, Barr writes that his approval of the investigations is not a sign that the Justice Department has found cases of voter fraud.
Ask about the states
Investigations of this type are normally the responsibility of the individual Länder, which have different rules. The normal position of the Ministry of Justice is to wait with federal intervention until all votes have been counted and, if necessary, counted.
But Barr writes in his letter that what has been seen as policy has never been a set rule and that if anyone finds hints of something that could change the outcome of the election, they should look into it.
“Serious allegations should be handled with great care, but speculative, imaginative, or implausible allegations should not be a basis for initiating federal investigations,” Barr writes.
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