Trump DOJ uses case of Utah letter carrier to highlight allegations of voting fraud

The Justice Department charged former Utah postal worker Damon Matai Seei with discarding roughly 300 primary ballots in a church parking lot dumpster in June, an incident acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter held up at a Washington press conference as proof 'voting fraud is real.' Seei told investigators he had no political motive and threw out the mail, ballots included, to lighten his workload and go home early.

The announcement came after the Supreme Court blocked a new Postal Service mail-tracking rule from taking effect for this year's elections, following rulings from a district judge and the 1st Circuit that found the rule was effectively an election regulation, not the 'modest' technical mail specification the administration had argued in court. McCotter criticized the judge who blocked it while using the Utah case to press the administration's broader fraud narrative.

McCotter said the department has charged 70 immigrants with illegal voting since Trump took office, compared to 13 during the Biden administration, and that Homeland Security Investigations has made 160 arrests from 1,600 open cases. A reporter noted 70 prosecutions is a fraction of the 150 million votes cast in 2024; McCotter responded that 'thousands more' cases are under investigation.

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