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Justice Department OKs armed officers investigating fraud at ballot-counting sites

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The Justice Department has greenlighted the use of armed agents to investigate potential voter fraud at ballot-counting centers despite a U.S.

law barring the presence of federal officers on Election Day. Officials at the agency, led by Trump administration appointee Bill Barr, told federal prosecutors in an email that the law only applies to Nov.

3, not the days afterward, the New York Times reported. Barr, the U.S. attorney general, has been a loyalist to President Trump, who has complained since Tuesday that Democratic officials at state and local levels are trying to steal the election.

The statute “does not prevent armed federal law enforcement persons from responding to, investigate, or prevent federal crimes at closed polling places.

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