To withhold the plan, the Justice Department relied on what has long been called the most abused exemption - Exemption 5, also known as (b)(5) - of the Freedom of Information Act.
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I have determined that these materials are to be withheld in full pursuant to Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act, 551(b)(5), which pertains to certain inter- and intra-agency records protected by civil discovery privileges, in this instance the deliberative process and presidential communications privileges. This is what the chief of the Freedom of Information branch of the Civil Rights Division told the foundation:Īfter review of the Civil Rights Division documents responsive to your request, the Division has identified (15) pages of material representing the STRATEGIC PLAN for the Implementation of Executive Order 14019, Promoting Access to Voting. What was worse was they flat-out refused to turn over the strategic plan. Yet, when that rolled around what they turned over was nothing, just some emails and a few documents about who would be attending what meetings. Finally, a judge had to order them to turn over the information, which they were supposed to do by Sept.
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“Please provide your agency’s strategic plan developed pursuant to President Biden Executive Order 14019 … outlining ways you identified for your agency to promote voter registration and voter participation,” the request said.īut the DOJ refused to answer them. So the Foundation for Government Accountability sent a FOIA request in July 2021 to the DOJ asking what they were doing to comply with Biden’s order. Naturally, it might lead someone to think what does all this involve, particularly when it’s the replacement for the very objectionable effort to take over elections? “These voters remain more likely to face long lines at the polls and are disproportionately burdened by voter identification laws and limited opportunities to vote by mail.”īiden’s order demanded that all federal agencies send the White House “a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation.” Now that doesn’t say much. “Black voters and other voters of color have faced discriminatory policies and other obstacles that disproportionately affect their communities,” the order said. The Order directed all of the government to respond, including increasing voter registration among groups that have historically tended to vote more for Democrats. These two parts also make my hackles rise: “using “approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations” to register voters at federal agencies” and “using identification documents issued by the agency to help people register to vote.” They make me wonder what funny business could be going on there, not to mention what the federal government doing here in procedures that are handled by the state and local governments. One provision states: “It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to expand access to, and education about, voter registration and election information, and to combat misinformation, in order to enable all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy.”Īnytime you see “combat misinformation,” alarm bells should be going off that there’s a problem. Promoting voter registration for federal prisoners.
Giving public employees “time off to vote in Federal, State, local, Tribal, and territorial elections” and Providing more multilingual services to potential voters Using identification documents issued by the agency to help people register to vote Using “approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations” to register voters at federal agencies Providing voter registration and vote-by-mail applications Linking federal agency websites to state voter registration websites Using federal agencies to inform Americans about voting Using federal agencies to promote voter registration The “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting” reads like a Democratic Party wish-list of “reforms” that enshrines many of the practices that were adopted on a temporary basis during the pandemic-affected 2020 election.
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