Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Posts Video Vowing to Prosecute Voter Fraud - A Crisis Manufactured by Trump
"The US Attorney’s Office will coordinate with our partners at the FBI to respond to complaints related to the upcoming general election," Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Habba said in the video.
Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba posted a video on X on Monday, November 3, the day before New Jersey’s closely watched gubernatorial election, vowing to prosecute any instances of voter fraud — a crisis fabricated by the Trump administration to undermine democratic elections.
On X, Habba wrote, “On the eve of election night, here’s a friendly reminder from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey.”
In the video, she says:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office will coordinate with our partners at the FBI to respond to complaints related to the upcoming general election. This office will investigate and prosecute any criminal activity related to the election process, including intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling voters, impersonating voters, altering voting ballots and tallies, stuffing ballot boxes and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input, and it will do so regardless of who commits those crimes and regardless of party or affiliation.
Habba previously served as President Donald Trump’s attorney. In 2023, a Florida judge fined her and Trump close to $1 million for filing a frivolous lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who Trump defeated in the 2016 presidential election.
A New Jersey appeals court is currently considering if Habba was legitimately appointed to her role as Acting U.S. Attorney.
Last month, on October 24, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will “monitor polling sites” in Passaic County, New Jersey, and five California counties — Kern, Riverside, Fresno, Orange, and Los Angeles.
According to DOJ’s press release, “this effort will be overseen by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division under the leadership of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. The Division will deploy Civil Rights personnel who will coordinate with U.S. Attorney’s Offices.”
Dhillon is a former legal advisor to Trump who has called doctors who provide gender-affirming care “butchers.”
Like her record on civil rights, her record on voting rights is abhorrent.
During his 2020 campaign, she perpetuated his lie that the election was stolen from him and spread false claims about persistent voter fraud in Pennsylvania, a state that Trump legitimately lost to Joe Biden.
Her law firm, Dhillon Law Group, has filed more than a dozen lawsuits across eight states aimed at challenging voting rights, election processes or the ability of Trump to appear on 2024 ballots in states that disqualified him because of his role in inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Earlier this year, 75 organizations signed onto a letter opposing her confirmation as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, writing that Dhillon “has relentlessly tried to limit access to the ballot box.”
In response to DOJ’s announcement, last month New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin said in a statement to The Carceral Report that:
The Trump Department of Justice’s announcement that it is sending federal “election monitors” to Passaic County is highly inappropriate, and DOJ has not even attempted to identify a legitimate basis for its actions. The Constitution gives states, not the federal government, the primary responsibility for running elections, and our state’s hardworking elections officials have been preparing for months to run a safe and secure election.
On October 28, I emailed DOJ and asked, in part:
1. What will “monitor polling sites” entail? What will it look like on the ground at polling sites?
2. Is DOJ dispatching staff to be at polling sites at the six identified counties on Election Day? If so, will they be inside the polling sites and/or outside? What will their duties be?
3. Has DOJ been in contact with the elected officials and county board of elections in each of the identified counties to discuss the plan to monitor polling sites?
The spokesperson replied:
“No comment beyond the press release.”