The “reckless” drive by Democrats to expand the vote for mail-in could “raise serious questions about the integrity of the election,” Attorney General William Barr told “Hannity” in an exclusive interview Thursday.
“I think it’s grossly irresponsible to do what the Democratic Party is doing now,” Barr said. “We have had very close races in recent history, the country is divided. If anything, we should ensure the integrity of our elections so that government would be legitimate going forward and accepted as legitimate.”
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The president and the GOP have been warning for months about possible fraud related to voting via mail. The RNC and the Trump re-election campaign have doubled this legal budget this year to back down on Democrats’ efforts to restore the voting laws in response to the pandemic.
Democrats, pushing back against the claims of Trump and the GOP, say cases of real voter fraud are limited and argue that Republicans are trying to suppress voter turnout to improve their chances of winning elections.
“The idea of holding elections by big post-in-ballots is reckless and wrong,” Barr said. “Everyone knows what happened in these cases.”
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Barr explained that because of the process required to get an absent vote, such a vote is safer than a general post-a-vote, in which votes are automatically sent “to everyone on the voting list”, resulting in “thousands and thousands of votes around,” not just the state but the country. “
“I have friends who haven’t lived in California in 21 years who got votes,” Barr said. “There are ballot papers left in boxes in apartment buildings, ballot papers for people who once lived at addresses are delivered to those addresses.
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“They can be filled by anyone. This is reckless and it can raise serious questions about the integrity of the elections, and doing so when we are a closely divided country as we are is playing with fire in my opinion.”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
