Nevada, New Mexico and Georgia officials subpoenaed by DOJ for records related to 2020 election - CNN

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Local officials successful Nevada, New Mexico and Georgia person received national subpoenas for records related to the 2020 predetermination arsenic the Justice Department’s probe intensifies successful battleground states.

Special counsel Jack Smith sent the subpoenas to the New Mexico caput of state’s bureau and to the Clark County, Nevada, elections part successful precocious November, according to copies of the requests obtained by CNN. Smith oversees the Justice Department’s probe into efforts to overturn the predetermination results.

The subpoenas inquire for immoderate and each communications from June 1, 2020, done January 20, 2021, with erstwhile President Donald Trump, his run and a fig of aides and allies. CNN antecedently reported that akin requests were sent to section officials successful Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona.

In addition, the Cobb County, Georgia, predetermination committee received an FBI subpoena this week, according to Ross Cavitt, the county’s communications director. Cobb County, which incorporates a ample portion of Atlanta’s bluish suburbs, had been the absorption of mendacious claims of elector fraud.

In precocious December 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced an audit recovered “no fraudulent absentee ballots” with a 99% confidence. The audit was retrospective connected absentee ballot envelopes received during November’s wide election, pursuing allegations that Cobb County didn’t travel the process.

Former White House main of unit Mark Meadows made a astonishment sojourn to a Cobb County determination successful December 2020, wherever officials were conducting the absentee ballot signature audit.

CNN reported Monday that Smith had besides subpoenaed Raffensperger as portion of the Justice Department’s investigation. Raffensperger, who could beryllium to beryllium a peculiarly compelling witness, resisted Trump’s efforts to unit him to “find” the votes indispensable for Trump to triumph Georgia successful an infamous January 2021 telephone call.

Clark County, Nevada’s astir populous county, and Arizona’s caput of state’s bureau besides refuted claims of elector fraud aft the 2020 election.

Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland past period to oversee parts of the Justice Department’s transgression investigations into the January 6, 2021, insurrection and the retention of classified documents astatine Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property and is apt to beryllium tasked with making argumentation decisions astir whether to complaint Trump.

Smith and his squad of 20 prosecutors are moving accelerated successful the brace of transgression probes. Since Thanksgiving, helium has brought a fig of adjacent Trump associates earlier a expansive assemblage successful Washington, including 2 erstwhile White House lawyers, 3 of Trump’s closest aides, and his erstwhile speechwriter Stephen Miller.

This communicative has been updated with further details.