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VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL
KEN CUCCINELLI WILL NOT
INVESTIGATE A
VOTER FRAUD CASE OUT OF
HARRISONBURG.
HE SAYS HE CANNOT
STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS
OR A
LOCAL COMMONWEALTH'S
ATTORNEY ASKS HIM TO, AND
THAT HAS
NOT HAPPENED.
LAST WEEK, WE TOLD YOU
REGISTRATION
SUPERVISOR, WORKING FOR A
REPUBLICAN
PARTY OF VIRGINIA.
OFFICERS SAY THEY FOUND
VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS
IN A
DUMPSTER. CUCCINELLI
SAYS LOCAL AUTHORITIES
ARE CONDUCTING THEIR OWN
10 ON YOUR SIDE'S KATIE
COLLETT JUST GOT OFF THE
PHONE WITH THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL. KATIE, WHAT
DOES HE HAVE TO SAY?
NICOLE, KEN CUCCINELLI
TELLS ME HE IS FRUSTRATED
INVESTIGATE THIS CASE.
HE CALLS THIS A "SEVERE
SHORTCOMING IN OUR
ELECTION
LAWS" AND HE MAKES IT
CLEAR - THE LAW NEEDS TO
CHANGE.
ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN
CUCCINELLI WROTE THIS
LETTER IN RESPONSE TO A
REQUEST MADE BY VIRGINIA
SENATOR DONALD MCEACHIN.
HE ASKED CUCCINELLI TO
DUMPING
OF VOTER REGISTRATION
FORMS IN HARRISONBURG.
IN THE LETTER, CUCCINELLI
SAYS HE CANNOT LEGALLY
INVESTIGATE UNLESS
"REQUESTED TO DO SO BY
THE STATE
48:31 - 48:46 THE THREE
OF THEM
WHO ARE NOT PROSECUTORS,
HAVE NO CRIMINAL JUSTICE
BACKGROUND HAVE TO SIT
CONCLUDE
UNANIMOUSLY THAT THEY
WANT THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL'S OFFICE
TO INVESTIGATE SOMETHING.
IN HIS LETTER, CUCCINELLI
CALLS
THE CURRENT SYSTEM
CUMBERSOME AND LESS
EFFECTIVE
THAN IT IF HIS OFFICE
COULD ALSO WORK TO PUNISH
VOTING
VIOLATORS. 50:12 - 50:21
WE WOULDN'T BE
DUPLICATING WHAT THE
IS DOING
THERE OBVIOUSLY VERY
AGGRESSIVELY. WHAT WE
WOULD
DO IS THINGS THAT REACH
BEYOND THAT JURISDICTION.
THINGS LIKE WORKING TO
FIGURE OUT IF CASES OF
VOTER
FRAUD ARE COORDINATED
EFFORTS WITH PEOPLE
THROUGHOUT THE STATE -
COMMONWEALTH'S
ATTORNIES CANNOT DO. A
SOLUTION TO THIS ISSUE?
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO
CHANGE THE LAW. 42:24 -
42:32 I SUGGESTED
WITH
ATTORNIES. RIGHT NOW THE
LOCAL COMMONWEALTH'S
ATTORNEY HAS JURISDICTION
OVER THESE CASES.
THE LAW IS A
STRAIGHTFORWARD
AND NECESSARY PROCESS TO
MAKE SURE VOTERS RIGHTS
ARE NOT
VIOLATED AT THE POLLS.
47:11 - 47:17 IF SENATOR
MCEACHIN BROUGHT THIS
BILL AND WE SUPPORTED IT,
I
THINK IT WOULD PROBABLY
ROLL RIGHT THROUGH THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO READ THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S LETTER
TO SENATOR
MCEACHIN - WE HAVE IT
POSTED FOR YOU ON
JUST LOOK FOR THIS STORY.
KATIE COLLETT, 10 ON YOUR