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

[Dill]

(07-01-2017, 12:47 PM)GMDino Wrote: So if a state asked the feds for help because they had some proof of massive voter fraud they could come in.  Am I interpreting that right?

That has actually happened.

When there is voter suppression, and there is at least one federal office on the ballot, there is no "ask"; the Federal gov will investigate and prosecute so far as I know, often against the will of state officials.

But states are for the most part responsible for investigating and prosecuting their own election fraud, of which voter fraud is a sub-category.  However, if there is claimed evidence of massive, voter fraud, there appears to be no "ask" there either. Especially if it appears organized. Just convince the feds there is evidence and they will come--even if the evidence is bogus.  https://web.archive.org/web/20050324134344/http://www.ac4vr.com/news/acvrnews032105.html
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/voter-suppression-kevin-drum/

There are often reports of massive voter fraud in various states, but unlike cases of voter suppression, these have generally been quashed at the level of preliminary investigation.  The federal government has conducted at least one nationwide investigation, bowing to partisan complaints that the National Voter Registration Act of 93 had opened the floodgates to illegals, especially in Florida. http://billmoyers.com/2015/07/31/how-the-2000-election-in-florida-new-wave-voter-disenfranchisement/

That was AG John Ashcroft's nationwide inquiry into voter fraud which turned up about 25 cases. That ended badly in scandal as it bled into the questionable firing of state prosecutors by the next AG Alberto Gonzales, who was forced then to resign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/opinion/voting-fraud-inquiry-the-investigators-got-burned-last-time.html