The United States Attorney General has ordered an investigation …

United States Attorney General William Barr has ordered an investigation into alleged election irregularities on Tuesday, November 3 denounced by outgoing President Donald Trump. According to the president, he was the winner of the election and accuses the Democratic Party of having committed fraud. After Barr’s order, Justice Department Director of Election Crimes Richard Pilger has resigned.

In a note he sent to all his prosecutors, Barr is authorized to “investigate substantive complaints concerning irregularities in the voting or the compilation of votes before the certification of elections in their jurisdictions in certain cases, as I have already done in specific cases “.

“These surveys and reviews they can be made if there are clear and apparently credible allegations of wrongdoing which, if true, could potentially affect the outcome of a federal election in a particular state “, adds the document sent by the Attorney General.

During the week, Trump went to court in various states to expose the fraud, but their claims were rejected for lack of evidence. In his Twitter account, the president claims he got more “legal votes” and won the election “by many”.

The Trump campaign has also accompanied the complaints to court and they have the support of some members of the Republican Party, while others have already openly recognized the triumph of the democratic pair consisting of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Barr, who performs the same duties as the justice minister, instructed his prosecutors to dismiss allegations that, even if true, would not affect the election result. In other words, the Trump official is looking for suspected irregularities in states where the difference between the Republican candidate and the president-elect is less than 1%.

In the note, Barr noted that existing protocols at the Department of Justice state that such an investigation should not be conducted until official results are available (There are states where the tally is not over, although the Democratic trend is already irreversible).

However, the official considered that these protocols, whose objective is that the states and not the federal government decide the elections, “can lead to situations where electoral mistakes cannot be realistically corrected”.

After Barr ordered the investigation, US Department of Justice Director of Election Crimes Richard Pilger has resigned in charge. “Having learned about the new rule and its ramifications … I unfortunately have to resign my post as director of the Electoral Crimes Division,” he wrote in an email to his colleagues, which was leaked to the American press.

Pilger too he regretted that Barr’s ordinance “repeals a 40-year rule of non-interference (federal) in the investigation of electoral fraud in the period leading up to voter certification.”.