Maureen Riordan in a 2024 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Voting Rights Act (Credit: public domain)
Maureen S. Riordan is the Senior Counsel, and Acting Chief of the Voting Section, part of the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice. She was appointed to that role in May 2025.
She is the top elections enforcement official in the Civil Division at the Trump/Bondi Department of Justice.
She has spent nearly her entire professional career at the Department of Justice. Lawyers close to the Department of Justice tell the Gateway Pundit that she’s now the “top dog” for election crimes.
This past week, Riordan, according to DOJ sources, has been giving talking points as to why election crimes will not be prosecuted under the second Trump administration. DC Attorneys involved have relayed what Riordan is telling people around town: actual election integrity is impossible.
Trump last week said he wants a ‘special prosecutor’ to investigate the 2020 election. That may be the only way the crimes of the systemic voter fraud documented across the country, will ever be prosecuted due to deep state agents still in power at the Justice Department.
Riordan’s two main excuses for not prosecuting these crimes herself are obviously lies. She has told attorneys that she lacks data analysts and doesn’t have “a data guy” to review election data for irregularities and systemic fraud, and that loopholes in current law prevent her from investigating voter fraud anyway.
This is the reason, she says, why she cannot prosecute the obvious systemic voter fraud documented in states like Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.
Riordan complains that she has “no data people” that she has access to, so she can’t effectively investigate election fraud from 2020 or 2024.
(…) Bill Bruch, who publishes a popular Substack on election integrity efforts in Washington State, “All Things Politics,” told the Gateway Pundit in response: “It’s concerning to hear that the Department of Justice doesn’t have a ‘data guy’ especially when I have five great ones, and IT specialists focused on election integrity whom I have worked with for years, that I could refer to them if DOJ asked. There are a lot of great expert people doing this work as volunteers, with solid resumes and credentials. I just can’t imagine that the nation’s central law enforcement agency can’t figure this out. Washington State was one of the first to use vote-by-mail, so we have seen the many methods they have used to cheat elections.”
Luckily for Riordan though, the Gateway Pundit has done her work for her, and can point her to the many data analysts nationwide who could assist her in this effort.
In fact, most of the data analysis has already been done. She doesn’t even need her own ‘data guy.’
The Gateway Pundit has years worth of archives that she could peruse that could give her the legal ‘reasonable grounds’ to open an investigation. The ‘reasonable grounds’ standard is the most common threshold for opening civil investigations, lower than “probable cause” which is the criminal standard, and similar to a “credible allegation” or “factual basis” suggesting a legal violation.
The Gateway Pundit also conducted an interview alongside another group in the fall of 2024 with Tom Davis, a retired Michigan data analyst who wrote a report on data irregularities in the 2020 election along with John Droz. The review of this data shows impossible irregularities in absentee ballot data where there is a correlation between the percentage of the vote that Republican and Democrat candidates receive from absentee ballots, by precinct.
The full interview with “data guy” Tom Davis is below.
John Droz also wrote data reports along with many other ‘data guys’ of which Tom Davis was one, after the 2020 elections looking into voting irregularities in swing states. His reports have never been challenged.
Riordan also claims that the Help American Vote Act (“HAVA”) of 2002 is essentially without any effective enforcement sections, rendering her impotent to bring cases about voter fraud. She claims that her only power to enforce the law rests in TItle three of the act.
Title III sets mandatory requirements for voting systems, provisional ballots, and centralized voter registration databases, and under Section 209 of HAVA, the Attorney General has the authority to bring civil actions in federal court to ensure state compliance. These lawsuits typically seek declaratory or injunctive relief to force states to correct deficiencies—such as failing to implement accessible voting machines, mishandling provisional ballots, or neglecting to establish a statewide voter database. Unlike private individuals, who must follow the more limited and procedural pathways outlined in Title IV, the DOJ can act directly to compel corrective action, often through consent decrees or court orders. This enforcement mechanism allows the federal government to maintain baseline election integrity and uniformity across states that accept HAVA funding.
DOJ sources tell the Gateway Pundit that in meetings, Riordan also deflects responsibility to prominent DOJ officials Ed Martin and Mack Warner. Martin and Warner, election integrity advocates suspect, are being set up to be the public face of fighting for election integrity, and are being set up to fail. The actual deep state complex within ‘main Justice’, which is what the Department of Justice calls itself, the deep state actually in control of the machinery of the Department are completely disinterested in pursuing the credible claims of voter fraud. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 6/25/2025) (Archive)