AnonymousBy the Department of Justice
United States Attorney Martin Estrada announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Thomas F. Rybarczyk will serve as District Election Officer for the Central District of California during the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8 general election.
As District Election Officer, AUSA Rybarczyk will oversee the handling of complaints related to election fraud, voting rights concerns and threats of violence to election officials or staff occurring in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. If complaints are received, he will coordinate with the FBI’s Field Office in Los Angeles to investigate them and will consult with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
“Every citizen must be able to vote without interference or discrimination and to have that vote counted in a free and fair election,” said United States Attorney Estrada. “Similarly, election officials and staff must be able to serve without being subject to unlawful threats of violence. The Department of Justice always will work tirelessly to protect the integrity of the election process.”
The Department of Justice plays an important role in deterring and combatting discrimination and intimidation at the polls, threats of violence directed at election officials and poll workers, and election fraud. The Department will address these violations wherever they occur. The Department’s longstanding Election Day Program furthers these goals and seeks to ensure public confidence in the electoral process by providing local points of contact within the Department for the public to report possible federal election law violations.
Federal law protects against such crimes as threatening violence against election officials or staff, intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling votes, impersonating voters, altering vote tallies, stuffing ballot boxes, and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input. The Voting Rights Act protects the right of voters to mark their own ballot or to be assisted by a person of their choice (where voters need assistance because of disability or inability to read or write in English).
“The right to vote is the cornerstone of American democracy,” United States Attorney Estrada said. “We all must ensure that those who have the right to vote can exercise it if they choose, and that those who seek to corrupt it are brought to justice.”
In addition, the FBI will have special agents available in each field office and resident agency throughout the country to receive allegations of election fraud and other voting rights abuses on election day. Agents at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, which serves the same seven counties as the United States Attorney’s Office, can be reached by the public at (310) 477-6565.
Complaints about possible violations of the federal voting rights laws can be made directly to the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., by phone at (800) 253-3931 or via a complaint form that may be found at https://civilrights.justice.gov.
Please note, however, in the case of a crime of violence or intimidation, please call 911 immediately and before contacting federal authorities. State and local police have primary jurisdiction over polling places, and almost always have faster reaction capacity in an emergency.
Amazing that this is necessary (and it is) in the US. The undermining of confidence in the vote of the people is so destructive. My love of country is so injured by what is happening. In GA 10s of 1000s of votes are being challenged by a new law that allows anyone to file a complaint. How is this going to be resolved before the probably run-off for US Senate? In AZ Fascists are stalking voters wearing masks and carrying guns to intimidate them. So sad.
So elections should just be a free for all with ballots handed out like the Independent, available for anyone to grab as many as the like? I recall those GA “Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws” that resulted in…… shattering voter turn out records. Why is it so hard for the US to have reliable, auditable, and quickly counted elections like so many other countries?
Set up a ridiculous fantasy, then argue against it as though it’s fact. Standard operating procedure for the cons.
Where were you 2016-2020, living in the Alaskan bush without TV or internet?
VOICE – tell us about the time the Dems physically attacked the police in an effort to try to kidnap or assault and murder members of the government over the “Russia Collusion?”
Also, tell us more about how Russia didn’t interfere in any way with the 2016 election, solicited by Trump or not.
@1:41 – Maybe he wasn’t plugged in to your exclusive propaganda feeds.
“Why is it so hard for the US to have reliable, auditable, and quickly counted elections like so many other countries?” – It’s not, we do. Problem is, some people aren’t capable of losing and openly call for protest and rebellion against elections that haven’t even happened.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63434960
“US government distributed a bulletin to law enforcement across the nation. It warned of a “heightened threat” of domestic violent extremism against candidates and election workers driven by individuals with “ideological grievances”.”
This is absolutely embarrassing and every American should be ashamed of how our elections have now become synonymous with political violence.
Yea, bummer one side spent 2016-2020 screaming about a stolen election and illegitimate President, rioted when he was inaugurated https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/inauguration-2017/washington-faces-more-anti-trump-protests-after-day-rage-n709946 The double standard is absolutely amazing.
VOR–the US has had reliable elections historically. Better than almost any other nation. This is true today but Trump knowing he would lose decided to question the results even before they came in. The major, maybe only real, question about our election results is the propaganda being spewed by the losers. Every study has proven, many times over, that there is no ballot fraud that affected any election (with the most provable illicit conduct being on the part of those who supported the GOP).
It is sad, and a total waste of taxpayer dollars that’s would’ve gone to educating our kids, building infrastructure, and the like. Unfortunately, the garbage talk we’ve seen the last few elections about ‘bogus election results’ has apparently made the Feds wary and defensive.
My neighbor and I are nearly polar opposites when it comes to politics, but it has never/ever come between us being polite and respectful toward one another. A couple days ago I asked him what he thought about the DNC spending tens of millions of dollars on GOP candidates. He said, “WHAT are you talking about?” I told him that the DNC at last report had spent over $50 million dollars in advertising/promoting “far-right, loonie-toonie, election-denying” GOP candidates that the DNC feels will be the easiest to defeat. He was in absolute disbelief and came back an hour or so later after searching Google for the “fake” news. He is devastated to find out that not only is the story true, but the folks in the DNC are also publicly stating that they are A-OK with “the end justifies the means” approach. Some of the GOP that the DNC supported were defeated in primaries, but some “got through” and are doing well in the polls now.
A bit dated (July 22nd of this year) but from CNN:
“Efforts by Democratic campaigns, committees and outside groups to tilt the playing field in their favor by supporting extremist Republican primary candidates are sparking backlash as other Democrats warn the tactic risks putting conspiracy theorists and election deniers in office.”
Point being, it seems that the predominant argument against the requests to verify the election results is along the lines of: Voter fraud can’t and didn’t occur in our perfect election system. Because it can’t occur, we won’t even check. And because our system is so indisputably perfect, we’re going to fight tooth and nail against every effort to verify the validity of the votes that were counted. I’m sorry but that rationale is not compelling. If you’re not afraid of the results, you’re not afraid to look. The democratic party’s response to the election allegations makes me more suspicious of the process than the election itself.
You’re manufacturing a rationalization that literally no one has claimed.
It’s false.
The reality is this–voter fraud happens.
And it happens so infrequently, at such an absolutely insignificant level, that it can have no discernible impact on our elections. Trump’s own team to investigate “voter fraud” was disbanded because they found so few instances and laughably, a whole bunch of them were actually right wing voters and organizations.
You probably know very well that the “voter fraud” argument is simply a Trojan horse to create laws and practices which remove make it more difficult for legitimate voters to vote because the GOP is well aware that their best chance of winning any election is to eliminate as many people from the process was possible.
And, I bet you actually know all of that.
There’s no voter fraud in the United States, we’re immune to that! Right…. and the vax stopped the spread too. I say, ya better check the San Francisco County voting procedures as well…
Ignorant people keep posting that “vaccines didn’t stop the spread”, proving they know nothing about vaccines in particular, and epidemiology in general. Vaccines are meant to reduce the burden of disease both by reducing transmission and by making any subsequent infections less harmful. No vaccine in history has ever been 100% effective at either.
It’s the same with free and fair elections. There is no voter fraud of significance in our electoral system.
But they don’t reduce transmission, not even a little bit, vs. most other vaccines which are 90%+ at preventing infection and stopping transmission. You’re also using the current definition of vaccine, which the CDC changed during covid to match what the covid vaccine actually does, which is different than how they defined vaccines prior to covid.
Nope. You’re just repeating antivax social media nonsense. The COVID vaccines greatly reduce the burden of disease, and have effectively eliminated the transmission of COVID variants that they are tuned for. It is primarily versions of COVID that have mutated in response to the vaccines that still manage to transmit, albeit at a much lower level.
I guess, in VOR’s simulation of reality, the flu vaccine isn’t a vaccine, and has never in its history been defined as a vaccine. Actually, in his fantasy definition, there would be no such thing as a vaccine.
You’re both wrong. “Experts” knew early on it would be nearly impossible to create a traditional vaccine for a constantly mutating coronavirus. Pfizer didn’t test for it’s ability to stop transmission because they knew it wouldn’t stop transmission. When it was released the original variants were long gone and the CDC, FDA, Pfizer and many politicians knowingly lied to everyone by saying the shots would stop transmission and prevent you from contracting covid. They flat out lied. I’m not saying they don’t reduce severity of an infection in higher risk individuals so don’t spin my words. RE: the flu vaccine, ahead of each season that determine what the most likely strains that season might be, and formulate the shot to those specific strains. If they were correct, the vaccines do we’ll at reducing contracting the flu, if they don’t match it accurately it is much less effective preventing but still boosts your bodies immune response.
2:24 – Obviously, you ignore information from reputable sources, and discount any information not fitting your false narratives. You also don’t appreciate the technical achievement (and difficulty) of producing the mRNA vaccines for COVID strains, as compared to the decades-old tech for flu vaccines. But, since your only goal is to spread politically-motivated FUD, repeatedly spewing false information doesn’t bother you a bit.
“But they don’t reduce transmission, not even a little bit,” – not true. We’ve been over this a lot.
Thank you, ED, for completely deleting VOICE’s comment about the vaccine making people prone to infection. I’m glad you’ve kept up with the policy of removing any dangerous misinformation related to covid.