Jen Fifield
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ProPublica reporter covering voting, elections and democracy. Former @votebeatUS @azcentral @stateline_news. Tips: DMs open and on Signal jenafifield.01.
"You conclude your July 7th letter by asking 'how the Department can assist' in Secretary McGrane's efforts to comply with federal law. We have several suggestions. First, you can stop threatening your friends in Idaho," the letter says.
NEW: Trump's Thursday speech is slated to address newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election, according to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans.
@AzPinkLady We count envelopes at the polling place, and again when they arrive for processing. At the end of tabulation, Party observers pick a handful of precincts out of a hat and those are hand counted
Breaking from @VotebeatUS: Trump has fired all three remaining commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the only federal agency that touches election administration without any leadership.
1/The Department of Justice is threatening to prosecute election officials across the country for failing to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls, an escalation of the Trump administration's attempts to prosecute election fraud, according to letters obtained by ProPublica
