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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,094 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 09:31 PM Sep 2020

Barr Stokes Doubts Over Mail-In Voting, Echoing Trump Theme

(Bloomberg) -- State and local officials are “playing with fire” if they rely on sending out tens of thousands of mail-in ballots for the November election, Attorney General William Barr said, without providing evidence that there’s a risk to a process long used in the U.S.

The nation’s top law enforcement officer weighed in on an issue frequently raised by President Donald Trump, who has said the election will be “rigged” against him if officials allow the broad use of mail-in ballots in response to health concerns during the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s despite Trump having submitted vote-by-mail ballots previously, and states such as Oregon having a track record of conducting their elections solely by mail.

“We haven’t had the kind of widespread use of mail-in ballots that’s being proposed,” Barr said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room.” “Now what we’re talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list when everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate.”

“You think that’s a way to run a vote?” added Barr, 70, who took office in 2019 as the second attorney general under Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/barr-stokes-doubts-over-mail-in-voting-echoing-trump-theme/ar-BB18EgmG?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

Pig boy shows his ignorance.

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Barr Stokes Doubts Over Mail-In Voting, Echoing Trump Theme (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Barr knows a Biden win could mean he goes to jail, he should. He told Rosenstein to curtail Mueller uponit7771 Sep 2020 #1
In 2016, I got a trump supporter arrested for trying to vote twice Gothmog Sep 2020 #2
Can't say it will break my heart to see these assholes busted for trying it. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #3

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
1. Barr knows a Biden win could mean he goes to jail, he should. He told Rosenstein to curtail Mueller
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 09:59 PM
Sep 2020

... investigation.

Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
2. In 2016, I got a trump supporter arrested for trying to vote twice
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 11:08 PM
Sep 2020

I was in the voter protection war room and an election judge called me and asked if trying to vote twice was against the law. A trump supporter insisted that he had the right to vote twice. We had a room full of lawyers and fed the election judge with the provision of the Texas Election Code that made it a crime to vote twice. This idiot was arrested and this arrest made the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-000002-percent-of-all-the-ballots-cast-in-the-2016-election-were-fraudulent/

A man in Texas who voted twice. Phillip Cook was arrested on Election Day after voting twice. He claimed to be an employee of Trump's campaign who was testing the security of the electoral system. He wasn't an employee of the campaign — and the polling location's security worked perfectly well, it seems.

BTW, his second vote was not registered. The mere attempt to vote twice was a crime
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