https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/09/top-justice-department-official-quits/

Attorney General William Barr’s authorization to investigate “specific allegations” of voter fraud prompted the Justice Department official who oversees investigations of voter fraud, Richard Pilger, to step down from the post within hours, the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Barr’s directive ignored the Justice Department’s longstanding policies intended to keep law enforcement from affecting the outcome of an election. And it followed a move weeks before the election in which the department lifted a prohibition on voter fraud investigations before an election.”

That statement and got me curious, led me to this;

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/us/politics/justice-department-election-fraud.html

Justice Dept. Eases Election Fraud Inquiry Constraints as Trump Promotes False Narrative Published Oct. 7, 2020

For decades, federal prosecutors have been told not to mount election fraud investigations in the final months before an election for fear they could depress voter turnout or erode confidence in the results. Now, the Justice Department has lifted that prohibition weeks before the presidential election.

A Justice Department lawyer in Washington said in a memo to prosecutors on Friday that they could investigate suspicions of election fraud before votes are tabulated. That reversed a decades-long policy that largely forbade aggressively conducting such inquiries during campaigns to keep their existence from becoming public and possibly “chilling legitimate voting and campaign activities” or “interjecting the investigation itself as an issue” for voters.

Then I remembered this;

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/election-punishment-searches-skyrocket/

Google Searches For ‘Election Fraud Punishment,’ ‘Jail’ Skyrocketed Ahead Of The Election

For example, a month prior to the election, the phrase “how to sell ballot” rose in popularity, hovering around 50% and hit peak popularity on October 30th.

“Election fraud jail” also spiked in popularity a few days prior to the election, as did the other terms pertaining to inquiries about punishments for conducting “election fraud.”

Google trends also reveals how these search terms were considerably more prevalent in specific areas of the country – especially swing states like Pennsylvania and Arizona.

Cause and effect, funny how random things could possibly be connected.