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"If anyone in the federal government is foolish enough to violate federal law … that will be shut down by courts right away.” Pumped-up investigations Days before the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Justice Department sent threatening letters to at least 30 election officials across the country, warning states that they are “currently under investigation” and subject to “ongoing litigation” for access to election records. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is also calling for a federal probe into Becker’s group, a nonpartisan coalition of election experts. Becker has vehemently denied Mullin’s allegations, but election conspiracy theorists and Trump allies have rallied around the idea of an investigation and renewed attacks against the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that connects state election officials to share data for more-accurate voter rolls."

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