FBI official: No evidence of 'coordinated' mail-in voter fraud
WASHINGTON — A senior FBI official said Wednesday that the bureau has “not seen to date” a “coordinated” mail-in voter fraud scheme, despite President Trump’s and his allies’ repeated attacks on the long-standing U.S. mail-in voting option and the Postal Service.
And even if there were a level of coordination among fraudsters mailing in ballots, “it would be extraordinarily difficult to change the outcome of the election based on this kind of fraud,” the FBI official added.
The bureau member’s remarks were made during a phone background briefing with journalists on Wednesday afternoon, along with representatives from various government agencies involved in election security. Reporters were asked not to name those who spoke during the call.
The FBI officials’ statement, backed by top election security personnel, appeared to contradict Attorney General William Barr’s comments during a recent Fox News interview in which he argued that allowing for widespread voting by mail would “open the floodgates to fraud,” including the possibility that a foreign country could “print tens of thousands of counterfeit ballots.” But speaking on the same call Wednesday, a senior official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported having “no information or intelligence” on this threat.
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