Justice department allegedly investigating debunked 2020 Georgia election fraud claims
Source: The Guardian
Justice department allegedly investigating debunked 2020 Georgia election fraud claims
Claim, by election deniers, would signal latest step by DoJ in moving away from protecting Americans’ voting rights
Fri 14 Nov 2025 12.00 GMT
Last modified on Fri 14 Nov 2025 12.02 GMT
Members of Georgia’s election denial movement have claimed in recent weeks that the justice department is investigating debunked fraud claims in the state stemming from the 2020 election.
The development would be just the latest in a series of moves by Trump acolytes at the DoJ who are transforming the voting section of the agency from an office focused on protecting Americans’ voting rights to one that is in lockstep with an election denial movement that incessantly demands investigations and drastic reductions in access to the polls based on Donald Trump’s lies about elections.
On 2 October, Republicans from the Georgia legislature invited several election deniers to speak at a hearing designed to help lawmakers decide whether to end the state’s membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, an organization that helps election officials remove ineligible voters from voter rolls.
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