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A new White House task force reviewing thousands of pages of classified intelligence and law enforcement documents for evidence of irregularities in U.S. elections is expected to begin releasing documents within weeks, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter told MS NOW.<\/p>\n

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, whose acting chief, Bill Pulte, has been accused by Democrats of politically weaponizing federal government information, will be part of the effort. Democrats say that Trump has placed Pulte in the position so that he can aid Republicans in the midterm elections and potentially limit voting by Democrats.<\/p>\n

Pulte has no intelligence experience and also serves as the administration\u2019s top federal housing official. Pulte referred multiple Trump political rivals for Justice Department criminal prosecution last year based on mortgage information he obtained from government databases. None of those cases have resulted in convictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The release of the documents appears to be part of a series of accelerating efforts by Trump and his aides to again question the results of the 2020 election, claim that widespread voter fraud occurs in the country and decrease public trust in the results of pivotal elections this fall that will decide control of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve ever seen an administration that is this hostile to voting rights and free and fair elections,\u201d said Jonathan Diaz, the director of voting advocacy at the Campaign Legal Center, an ethics watchdog group. \u201cThis is a new frontier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Election security experts and election officials have long expected the Trump administration to release more government documents in an attempt to flood the information ecosystem with false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election \u2014 all with an eye toward sowing confusion about future elections.<\/p>\n

David Becker, a former Justice Department voting rights attorney, said the release of intelligence documents on alleged irregularities in elections is likely to fall flat with most Americans. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to get up on a press conference and throw a thousand-page document out there that has rehashed and debunked claims in it from years and years ago,\u201d Becker said, adding that any actual illegality uncovered would have to face judicial scrutiny. \u201cTell it to a judge. See what happens then.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no fear of anything being released. We already know what happened in the 2020 election. That\u2019s the most scrutinized election in world history,\u201d Becker added. \u201cI do have a fear that the White House and the federal government has become perhaps the primary amplifier of disinformation that seeks to delegitimize American democracy in our election process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Threatening letters<\/h2>\n

A Trump Justice Department appointee, Harmeet Dhillon, threatened state election officials nationwide with criminal prosecution on Tuesday if they count ballots cast by noncitizens, according to letters from Dhillon reviewed by MS NOW.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move amplifies long-debunked conspiracy theories promoted by Trump about widespread noncitizen voting, which research and state audits have found is extremely rare, involves a minuscule number of votes and is not conducted in a coordinated manner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican and Utah\u2019s top election official, assailed Dhillon\u2019s tenor and tactics. She said in a social media post that a dozen courts had ruled that previous requests from Dhillon for private voter data from states were illegal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGot another love letter this morning from the DOJ sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution,\u201d Henderson wrote. \u201cThis is truly bizarre behavior by the federal agency that is supposed to be protecting civil rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dhillon also informed Michigan officials this week that the Justice Department intends to send federal monitors to three cities that are Democratic strongholds, including Lansing, during the state\u2019s Aug. 4 primary elections. Michigan has a hotly contested U.S. Senate race and a toss-up House seat in Lansing that are key targets for both parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And in late June, the Federal Emergency Management Agency new requirements demanding that states revamp how they conduct elections or risk losing federal counterterrorism funding awarded by FEMA\u2019s parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those actions build on Trump\u2019s long-standing efforts to undermine faith in the country\u2019s elections, including trying to overturn his 2020 loss to Joe Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump has taken a whole-of-government approach to influencing election results,\u201d Mark Blumberg, who investigated voting rights cases for 20 years in the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division, told MS NOW. \u201cIt could be absolutely catastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Staunch loyalists<\/h2>\n

In addition to Pulte\u2019s appointment as acting director of national intelligence, Trump has appointed Todd Blanche, his former defense lawyer, as acting attorney general. Kash Patel, a former Trump White House aide, is FBI director. The appointments of staunch loyalists to lead the country\u2019s most powerful intelligence and law enforcement posts have raised concerns among Democrats that they could help Trump question the results and limit voting in Democratic areas.<\/p>\n

Pulte, Blanche and Patel \u2014 and all previous heads of the Justice Department, FBI and U.S. spy agencies\u00a0 \u2014 have no legal role in the administration of elections or the counting of votes, election experts said. They have the authority to investigate foreign interference in U.S. elections, but the Constitution clearly says that only state and local officials \u2014 and in some instances Congress \u2014 set the rules for voting and count the votes.<\/p>\n

No president in U.S. history has tried to unilaterally rewrite federal election rules and use the U.S. Postal Service to limit who gets to vote, until Trump did so in an executive order last spring. No president had systematically spread false claims that elections are rigged, and declined to accept presidential election results, until November 2020. And no president had replaced attorneys general, FBI directors and intelligence officials who declined to back their conspiracy theories with ones who do \u2014 until Trump returned to the White House for a second term.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration has shown a willingness to engage in activities that are prohibited by federal law,\u201d Diaz said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Trump\u2019s then-director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, accompanied FBI agents as they executed a search warrant signed by a judge and removed hundreds of boxes of 2020 ballots and voting records from a polling place in heavily Democratic Fulton County, Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts are concerned that Pulte, who issued two criminal referrals against Trump rival Letitia James, the New York attorney general, would take similar action at Trump\u2019s behest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In one scenario, election experts said, on Election Day this fall, Pulte could obtain a warrant from a judge, arrive at a polling place and accompany FBI agents as they seize records and voting machines as part of what they say is a federal criminal investigation into election interference by a foreign country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessica Marsden, counsel and director of impact programs at Protect Democracy, a nonprofit legal center, said such an effort could disrupt voting or the counting of results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democrats would likely ask federal judges to order federal agents to return the voting machines and leave polling places, citing a 1948 law that prohibits armed federal agents or soldiers from entering polling places.<\/p>\n

Marsden is urging local election officials to immediately ask state and local government lawyers and law enforcement officials \u2014 such as state troopers and county sheriffs \u2014 how they would respond if FBI agents or marshals tried to forcibly seize voting machines, election records or ballots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should be calling their county attorney and their state attorney and ask them to be ready to challenge any warrant or subpoena in order to ensure that the chain of custody of election materials are protected until the results are finalized,\u201d Marsden said. \u201cThere are strong legal protections that state and local leaders can cite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another potential nightmare that democratic election experts have envisioned is that Justice Department monitors sent by Blanche and Dhillon to heavily Democratic Detroit and Lansing could announce that local officials had allowed noncitizens to vote.<\/p>\n

In yet another scenario, Mullin could have Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct raids in heavily Democratic areas of Texas, Georgia or other swing states, Diaz said, which could drive down turnout by naturalized American citizens who fear arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marsden said it was critical for election officials to discuss and plan for such scenarios now. She said vocal opposition to such efforts now could make Trump and his allies hesitate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marsden said she was stunned to be discussing such scenarios at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is unprecedented,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you had told me in 2010 that we would be having this conversation, I wouldn\u2019t have believed you. But we have to take this seriously, given events in 2020 and the president\u2019s focus on this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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