Maureen S. Riordan is the Senior Counsel, and Acting Chief of the Voting Section, part of the Civil Rights division of the Division of Justice. She was appointed to that position in Might 2025.
She is the highest elections enforcement official within the Civil Division on the Trump/Bondi Division of Justice.
She has spent almost her complete skilled profession on the Division of Justice. Legal professionals near the Division of Justice inform the Gateway Pundit that she’s now the “prime canine” for election crimes.
From 2021-2025, Riordan labored for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which sues states to scrub up their voter recordsdata. She spent a 12 months in Charlottesville, Virginia submitting lower than a dozen circumstances towards unlawful immigrants for the federal government. She additionally prosecuted a person in Virginia for possession of marijuana within the Shenandoah Nationwide Park.
This previous week, Riordan, in keeping with DOJ sources, has been giving speaking factors as to why election crimes is not going to be prosecuted beneath the second Trump administration. DC Attorneys concerned have relayed what Riordan is telling folks round city: precise election integrity is unimaginable.
Trump last week said he wants a ‘special prosecutor’ to investigate the 2020 election. That could be the one method the crimes of the systemic voter fraud documented throughout the nation, will ever be prosecuted as a consequence of deep state brokers nonetheless in energy on the Justice Division.
Riordan’s two predominant excuses for not prosecuting these crimes herself are clearly lies. She has instructed attorneys that she lacks information analysts and doesn’t have “a knowledge man” to assessment election information for irregularities and systemic fraud, and that loopholes in present regulation stop her from investigating voter fraud anyway.
That is the explanation, she says, why she can’t prosecute the apparent systemic voter fraud documented in states like Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.
Riordan complains that she has “no information folks” that she has entry to, so she will’t successfully examine election fraud from 2020 or 2024.
Lamenting what she mentioned was the dearth of “a knowledge man” she says she will’t assessment the assembled proof of voting irregularities. Riordan, the ‘prime canine’ within the Division of Justice, can’t examine voter fraud as a result of she can’t meaningfully assessment the election information which could reveal the place the fraud occurred.
Invoice Bruch, who publishes a well-liked Substack on election integrity efforts in Washington State, “All Things Politics,” instructed the Gateway Pundit in response: “It’s regarding to listen to that the Division of Justice doesn’t have a ‘information man’ particularly when I’ve 5 nice ones, and IT specialists targeted on election integrity whom I’ve labored with for years, that I may confer with them if DOJ requested. There are a variety of nice skilled folks doing this work as volunteers, with stable resumes and credentials. I simply can’t think about that the nation’s central regulation enforcement company can’t determine this out. Washington State was one of many first to make use of vote-by-mail, so now we have seen the numerous strategies they’ve used to cheat elections.”
Fortunately for Riordan although, the Gateway Pundit has accomplished her work for her, and may level her to the numerous information analysts nationwide who may help her on this effort.
In reality, a lot of the information evaluation has already been accomplished. She doesn’t even want her personal ‘information man.’
The Gateway Pundit has years worth of archives that she could peruse that might give her the authorized ‘affordable grounds’ to open an investigation. The ‘affordable grounds’ normal is the commonest threshold for opening civil investigations, decrease than “possible trigger” which is the legal normal, and much like a “credible allegation” or “factual foundation” suggesting a authorized violation.
The Gateway Pundit additionally performed an interview alongside one other group within the fall of 2024 with Tom Davis, a retired Michigan information analyst who wrote a report on information irregularities within the 2020 election together with John Droz. The assessment of this information exhibits unimaginable irregularities in absentee poll information the place there’s a correlation between the share of the vote that Republican and Democrat candidates obtain from absentee ballots, by precinct.
The complete interview with “information man” Tom Davis is beneath.
John Droz additionally wrote information stories together with many different ‘information guys’ of which Tom Davis was one, after the 2020 elections looking into voting irregularities in swing states. His stories have by no means been challenged.
Riordan additionally claims that the Assist American Vote Act (“HAVA”) of 2002 is basically with none efficient enforcement sections, rendering her impotent to carry circumstances about voter fraud. She claims that her solely energy to implement the regulation rests in TItle three of the act.
Title III units obligatory necessities for voting methods, provisional ballots, and centralized voter registration databases, and beneath Part 209 of HAVA, the Legal professional Basic has the authority to carry civil actions in federal courtroom to make sure state compliance. These lawsuits usually search declaratory or injunctive aid to power states to right deficiencies—comparable to failing to implement accessible voting machines, mishandling provisional ballots, or neglecting to ascertain a statewide voter database. In contrast to non-public people, who should comply with the extra restricted and procedural pathways outlined in Title IV, the DOJ can act on to compel corrective motion, typically by way of consent decrees or courtroom orders. This enforcement mechanism permits the federal authorities to take care of baseline election integrity and uniformity throughout states that settle for HAVA funding.
DOJ sources inform the Gateway Pundit that in conferences, Riordan additionally deflects accountability to outstanding DOJ officers Ed Martin and Mack Warner. Martin and Warner, election integrity advocates suspect, are being set as much as be the general public face of preventing for election integrity, and are being set as much as fail. The precise deep state complicated inside ‘predominant Justice’, which is what the Division of Justice calls itself, the deep state truly accountable for the equipment of the Division are utterly disinterested in pursuing the credible claims of voter fraud.
Although this week the Gateway Pundit launched a strong unique that Chinese language whistleblowers have footage of Communist brokers printing faked absentee American ballots and placing them into the U.S. mail.
To Riordan, she doesn’t see that this stuff rise to the purpose of even opening an investigation.
For assist, Riordan depends on the enforcement sections of HAVA, the place she factors out that Title 4 of HAVA has been gutted by the courts, and that Title 3 is the one part that gives any potential enforcement provision.
However, Riordan privately believes the statute of limitations is prone to run out on most voter fraud circumstances, particularly referencing the Muskegon, Michigan incident.
In October 2020, GBI Methods was caught making an attempt to fraudulently register 12,000 voters in in the future in Muskegon, Michigan. Additional tales emerged that clerks from round Michigan had a non-public Fb group the place they talked about ‘care packages’ coming from lodge addresses the place GBI Methods was working. An unknown variety of false voter registrations had been seemingly by no means caught and the cover-up on this has been comparatively within the open.
The native police investigated and their investigation was taken over by the Michigan State Police. The Michigan State Police investigated and, the general public was instructed, the investigation was handed off to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Michigan Legal professional Basic mentioned that the case was handed off to the FBI at a press convention. However later, it emerged that it could by no means have been handed off and, as an alternative, the FBI was merely investigating a associated crime, however by no means formally opened a Muskegon investigation.
What election integrity champions concern is that the assorted regulation enforcement authorities are merely ‘working out the clock’ on the five-year statute of limitations to permit these election crimes to go unprosecuted.
DOJ sources say the Muskegon criminal case is prone to die this 12 months except it was prosecuted, and observe Riordan is conscious of each the allegations, and the pending expiration of the time to prosecute the crimes.
This was miserable information to election integrity champion Chris Kaijala, who believes he was cheated out of a County Commissioner and who has been documenting Muskegon County voter fraud for years. “I can’t imagine {that a} case which has over 10,000 attainable felonies, wouldn’t be aggressively adopted up on. This story, to me, has all the things to do with whether or not the Republican Social gathering can win on this County, and admittedly, this Nation. How is it attainable that 10,000 felonies from false registrations can’t be pursued by the DOJ? It simply blows my thoughts.”
“Individuals in Muskegon need this accomplished, we don’t have any authorized assist, the Michigan Legal professional Basic Dana Nessel is hostile to us, our County Prosecutor is working immediately for the Secretary of State, now we have no safety, there’s no equity. so I don’t know who else we’re supposed to assist us. What number of election felonies do it’s a must to have earlier than the DOJ will examine? The locals defer to the state, and the state defers to the feds, and now the feds are blaming this for his or her inaction?”
DOJ additionally has a legal part, the “Election Crimes Department” of the “Public Integrity Part” of the Division of Justice. This workplace may very well be looking down and rooting out election fraud. This workplace can be the hyper-politicized division that grew to become the assault canine for the Obama/Biden regime who went after and jailed conservative leaders. One sufferer of the division was Sen. Ted Stevens in 2009, who died earlier than he may very well be totally exonerated by a DOJ that coerced false testimony towards him, and who flew out witnesses who may exonerate him. The legal professional concerned with the Stevens persecution dedicated suicide when his crimes had been dropped at mild.
The Invoice Barr DOJ appointed Robert Heberle as the pinnacle of the department in 2020 to research 2020 voter fraud, which the Gateway Pundit exclusively warned the public that “the fix was in” because Heberle had been tied to politicized persecutions of conservatives previously.
Heberle resigned from the Department of Justice in disgrace this previous February.
The Division had no drawback or hesitation in inventing new crimes to use against January 6th protesters. It had no drawback with data analysis on massive data dumps in order to capture phone records, texts, private Signal threads, when it came to arresting thousands of pro-Trump protesters who cared about election integrity and honest elections.
The DOJ was even the recipient of the entire archive of those who interacted with Trump’s account in the past, in order that it may kind out whom to persecute.
The federal authorities, as a part of the Biden Censorship Advanced nonetheless being litigated as a part of the Missouri v. Biden federal censorship go well with, the place Gateway Pundit Writer Jim Hoft is the lead Plaintiff, had no drawback flagging a whole lot of hundreds of particular person social media posts that had been vital of the false COVID narrative, vital of vaccines, or which talked about the Hunter Biden laptop computer. The federal government and the Division of Justice had no drawback dealing with giant information units within the current previous when it got here to the precise Division priorities of prosecuting their political opponents for made-up political crimes.
1000’s of activists throughout the nation have been defamed, persecuted, prosecuted, and harassed as a result of they believed in, spoke up about, and work for election integrity. This choice by the Trump/Bondi Division of Justice indicators that no enforcement work will ever occur, as the assorted statutes of limitations are about to run out on the finish of the 12 months.
In the meantime, Trump electors nationwide had been prosecuted for hesitating to certify the clearly fraudulent 2020 election. Election integrity attorneys had been disbarred and sanctioned by courts. The persecution towards the 2020 Trump electors continues to be ongoing in Michigan in each civil and legal courts.
Crew Biden pushed prosecutions and lawfare even when the info weren’t on their facet. Crew Trump, up to now, has been reluctant to prosecute a single individual even when the info are apparent and obvious as to their criminality.
Already, Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel, and Deputy Director Bongino, have taken significant criticism and scrutiny for their abject failures at releasing the suppressed documents related to the JFK Assassination and the Jeffrey Epstein murder investigation. This betrayal on election integrity is prone to merely be the most recent chapter of the story of the final word victory of the deep state, and the shortcoming of the White Home and the Trump crew to successfully ship on his repeated marketing campaign guarantees to free these recordsdata, and examine voter fraud.
Invoice Bruch famous that many election integrity champions face lawfare from native authorities, whereas receiving little assist from Washington, “It’s gotten so dangerous in Washington State, left-wing legislators in Olympia are even making an attempt to criminalize issues like voter roll challenges and citizen initiative petition signature gatherers by making it a felony in the event that they deem that you just did something incorrect. Many election integrity advocates are volunteers merely making an attempt to assist our auditors clear up the voting rolls. Our left-wing legislators haven’t any drawback inventing new legal guidelines or reinterpreting present legal guidelines to attempt to outlaw election integrity. As an alternative of serving to with the trigger and bettering issues, they’re making an attempt to imprison us. So it’s very disappointing and troubling to listen to that some in DOJ management received’t stand as much as struggle for election integrity and voter fraud.”
Over e-mail, a Division of Justice spokesperson denied these claims. They mentioned, “The Civil Rights Division has and can proceed to aggressively pursue enforcement of varied federal elections statutes. Election integrity is important to our democracy and this Division of Justice will vigorously defend the security and safety of our elections in courtroom.”
