U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed on Oct. 25 that the Department of Justice (DOJ) “will not permit voters to be intimidated” during the 2022 midterm elections.
“The Justice Department has an obligation to guarantee a free and fair vote by everyone who’s qualified to vote and will not permit voters to be intimidated,” Garland said during an unrelated news conference in Washington.
Garland was answering a question about armed “vigilantes” recently being spotted near a ballot drop box in Arizona.
The Maricopa County Elections Department shared several pictures of the Oct. 21 incident on Twitter, showing two men dressed in tactical gear and armed with magazines at a ballot drop box in the city of Mesa, located east of Phoenix….