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President Donald Trump called mail-in voting "mail-in cheating" at a Memphis event shortly after he cast a mail ballot in a Florida-area special election; he endorsed Republican Jon Maples in the race, while continuing to push restrictive voting measures. Election officials say mail voting includes safeguards, and experts warn such attacks can undermine trust in the democratic process.
Former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are discussing "election integrity" at Mar-a-Lago, continuing to falsely claim that Trump won the 2020 election. Fact-checking reveals that state and federal courts dismissed over 50 lawsuits aiming to overturn the election results, and an Associated Press investigation found minimal cases of voter fraud. Trump has criticized mail-in voting and voting machines, while also claiming that Democrats are "importing voters," but evidence shows that non-citizens voting has not significantly impacted election outcomes.
Police officers in Guatemala shoved and wrestled with justices of the top electoral tribunal during raids to seize tally sheets of votes from the August presidential elections. The raids, criticized by international organizations, are seen as an attempt to taint the election results and weaken the winning candidate, Bernardo Arévalo. The attorney general leading the raids, Consuelo Porras, has been previously sanctioned for undemocratic behavior and undermining corruption investigations. Independent observers have found no evidence of fraud in the election.
Federal prosecutors investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have suggested in a target letter that they could charge former President Donald Trump with violating a civil rights statute, Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it a crime to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States. This potential charge is in addition to the familiar charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and obstruction of an official proceeding. The use of this civil rights law raises the possibility that Trump could face prosecution for his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss by trying to rig the election himself.
Federal prosecutors investigating the January 6th Capitol attack have suggested in a target letter that former President Donald Trump could be charged with violating a civil rights statute, Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it a crime to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States. This unexpected inclusion in the letter raises the possibility that Trump could face prosecution for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. The letter also cited two other statutes, conspiracy to defraud the government and obstruction of an official proceeding, which have been previously discussed in relation to the Jan. 6 investigation.