{"id":12118,"date":"2016-10-25T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/us-attorney-fights-against-voter-fraud-in-alaska\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T23:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T06:26:12","slug":"us-attorney-fights-against-voter-fraud-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/us-attorney-fights-against-voter-fraud-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"US attorney fights against voter fraud in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Anchorage says it is working diligently to protect against voter fraud in the Nov. 8 election.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler issued a news release Monday announcing the appointment of a new district election officer as part of the effort. U.S. Attorney Kelly Cavanaugh has been named to the position and will oversee any complaints of election fraud or voting rights abuses in Alaska, KTUU-TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Loeffler\u2019s announcement follows repeated assertions by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that the election is \u201crigged\u201d against him.<\/p>\n<p>But Assistant U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder said Trump\u2019s statements aren\u2019t related to the Anchorage office\u2019s stepped-up efforts. During each major election, the office informs residents about voting rules and provides information on who to contact should there be any irregularities, Schroder said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law prohibits intimidating or bribing voters, impersonating voters and altering vote tallies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnsuring free and fair elections depends in large part on the cooperation of the American electorate,\u201d Loeffler said. \u201cIt is imperative that those who have specific information about discrimination or election fraud make that information available immediately to my office, the FBI, or the Civil Rights Division.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Anchorage says it is working diligently to protect against voter fraud in the Nov. 8 election. U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler issued a <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">news<\/a> release Monday announcing the appointment of a new district election officer as part of the effort. U.S. Attorney Kelly Cavanaugh has been named to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":12119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12118"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}