'Barr has gone off the rails': The Att Gen's new comments are stunning even his fiercest critics [View all]

‘Barr has gone off the rails’: The attorney general’s new comments are stunning even his fiercest critics

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/barr-has-gone-off-the-rails-the-attorney-generals-new-comments-are-stunning-even-his-fiercest-critics/

Published 1 min ago on September 15, 2020




Attorney General Bill Barr sparked outrage once again on Tuesday when a new round of his dangerous and inflammatory comments about voting by mail were published in the Chicago Tribune.

In a new column by John Kass, Barr floated more of his baseless fearmongering about mail-in votes, while hypocritically criticizing those who are afraid of President Donald Trump’s threat to democracy.

First, echoing Trump but putting his own spin on it, Barr attacked mail-in voting, which has existed for generation

“Just think about the way we vote now,” Barr said. “You have a precinct, your name is on a list, you go in and say who you are, you go behind a curtain, no one is allowed to go in there to influence you, and no one can tell how you voted. All of that is gone with mail-in voting. There’s no secret vote. You have to associate the envelope in the mailing and the name of who’s sending it in, with the ballot.

“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.

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Of course, absentee voting is simply a form of voting by mail. The terms are often interchangeable, .......................

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