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"There's so many occasions for fraud there that cannot be policed. I think it would be very bad. But one of the things I mentioned was the possibility of counterfeiting,” Barr said then of voting by mail, adding he didn’t have any evidence of counterfeiting, instead saying it was “obvious.”

July 2020

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In an interview he gave to Fox News, the attorney general said voting by mail “opens the floodgates to fraud.”

September 2020

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"This is playing with fire. We're a very closely divided country here," Barr said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" of changes this year where states are allowing more voting by mail because of the pandemic. "People trying to change the rules to this, to this methodology -- which, as a matter of logic, is very open to fraud and coercion -- is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire," Barr added.

“There’s no more secret vote with mail-in vote. A secret vote prevents selling and buying votes. So now, we’re back in the business of selling and buying votes. Capricious distribution of ballots means (ballot) harvesting, undue influence, outright coercion, paying off a postman … ‘here’s a few hundred dollars, give me some of your ballots,’” the attorney general said, according to the Tribune.

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“It might even be cheaper for the foreign government to counterfeit ballots in some critical districts than to engage in the other kinds of activities they have,” Barr continued. “What I'm saying is foreign intelligence services are very able. They can counterfeit currency and they have a lot of capacity. And I don't think counterfeiting a state ballot is particularly challenging for them if they wanted to do it.”

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“We haven’t had the kind of widespread use of mail-in ballots as being proposed. We’ve had absentee ballots, from people who request them from a specific address. Now, what we’re talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list when everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate,” Barr said in the Sept. 2 interview with CNN.

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“Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion,” Barr told CNN on Sept. 2…. “For example, we indicted someone in Texas, 1,700 ballots collected, he — from people who could vote, he made them out and voted for the person he wanted to. Okay?”

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"Those measures have been developed over the years precisely because of concerns of fraud and coercion," Barr said. "And you can't sell your vote, no one can intimidate you, no one can buy your vote. And it reduces radically the risk of fraud when you have a secret ballot that's organized the way we've had it organized."

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"And finally the fact that ballots are mailed out profligately the way they would be, many of them misdirected we know because of inaccuracy of voting lists, there are going to be ballots floating around and collected," he said.

December 2020

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'Most claims of fraud are very particularized to a particular set of circumstances or actors or conduct. They are not systemic allegations and. And those have been run down; they are being run down,' Barr said. 'Some have been broad and potentially cover a few thousand votes. They have been followed up on.'

Complete 180. Now he is saying that Trump knew he lost. How could he have known he lost after the election, when you have been telling him about all of the fraud risk of mail in voting (which is completely accurate) for months? Either Barr was lying to the public, or his boss. If his boss “knew” he had lost with no investigation, then his latest quote is an admission that he lied to the public.

Again, why is Barr not thrown right in with Trump on these indictments, given the words that came from his own mouth?

This post was edited on 8/3/23 at 12:36 pm