Meanwhile Trump's people do the dirty work...

[Dill]

(07-01-2017, 09:43 AM)Vlad Wrote: States oversee their own law enforcement as well, but does not the FBI become involved when deemed necessary?
That is all I'm saying.
 

The federal government is involved whenever there is need to guarantee the integrity of the election process. That's is why it can issue legislation like the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, as well as to prosecute voter suppression of citizens' civil right to vote.

No analogy is perfect, but your FBI analogy is especially appropriate insofar as it is the FBI which is "deemed necessary" to investigate and prosecute violations of civil rights, including voter suppression as well as voter/ballot fraud.

The problem now is we have a president who neither respects nor understands social science, and so can direct the power and the resources of the federal government away from demonstrable violations of election integrity like voter suppression and towards conspiracy theories of voter fraud--along the way demanding the kind of personal information typically used for voter suppression.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/06/21/voter-suppression-and-election-integrity-commission/