Simply by voting, or working for a certain company, or or striking or joining a union, or seeking an abortion may very well be notable enough for them to label you a certain way so they can pin something on you - "Acting against state interests" or some such.
Still, we should never allow the government to do to our opponents what we wouldn't want done to our allies.
The really crazy part is that none of us has any clue what type of citizens the IC has been targeting.
I'd be willing to bet it's all of us.
Please show me a instance where a judge approved a warrant to investigate the crime of voting.
If you are a non-us citizen or you're deemed "a terrorist" they can do whatever.
This complicates further with crap like the US spying on say Swedish residents and then forwarding information to Sweden. Technically; Sweden isn't spying on it's citizens, the US is. But it's the same result.
I assumed “legal” voting from the original comment but I guess its not all legal.
No, there really shouldn't have been an investigation. This was evil, wasteful, and above all, truly fucked up.
She didn't "steal" a vote from anyone. She cast a provisional ballot, after asking permission. There doesn't need to be an investigation- just check the facts, and deal with her provisional ballot as necessary.
At my college, we had a guy walk across the stage at the graduation ceremony for the school of engineering. But he wasn't in the school of engineering; he just found there ceremony to be at a more convenient time, and assumed it was all the same. They didn't call his name, and nothing came of it. Because it was an administrative issue. What they didn't do, was throw him in jail for trying to steal an engineering degree. Because there was zero chance of that happening, and he wasn't even trying to do that.
This means voting illegally?
Whether the vote is valid or not, whether it should be tossed out or kept, is a separate issue that really should be determined asynchronously, and carry no penalty. Especially if, as in this case, she literally asked the authorities if it was okay, and her ballot was only ever provisional in the first place.
If there's a list of people who are allowed to vote, what's the fraud here? What exactly are they getting away with? It's like the crime of seeing a "Sorry, you must be logged in" page on the web. Oh noes! That page is only for certain people, and you're not one of them, and you tried to see it and failed! Somebody call the cops.