Attorney General William Barr is sounding the same alarm as President Donald Trump on the issue of mail-in voting, asserting the method could be particularly susceptible to fraud.In an interview to air on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” and on Monday on “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business Network, Barr told anchor Maria Bartiromo that he was “worried about a n umber of things going into the election.”“One, the censorship of robust debate. I’m also worried about undermining the public confidence in the integrity of the elections,” he said.
The Trump administration has raised concerns that widespread use of mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election would result in voter fraud, Fox News noted.
“The thing we have going for us – especially when there’s intense division in the country – is that we have peaceful transfers of power and the way of solving it is to have an election,” Barr told Bartiromo. “But when governments, state governments, start adopting these practices like mail-in ballots that open the floodgates of potential fraud, then people’s confidence in the outcome of the election is going to be undermined.”
"But when state governments start adopting these practices like mail-in ballots, that open the floodgates of potential fraud, then people's confidence in the outcome of the election is going to be undermined," he said.
The remarks echoed comments from Trump, who issued an all-cap warning that mail-in voting will harm Republicans and lead to widespread fraud.
“MAIL-IN VOTING WILL LEAD TO MASSIVE FRAUD AND ABUSE. IT WILL ALSO LEAD TO THE END OF OUR GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS TRAGEDY BEFALL OUR NATION,” Trump tweeted last month.
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