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MOTSIER TRUMP: US Attorney William Barr. Photo: Jeff Roberson / AP
In early November, Justice Minister William Barr launched an investigation into alleged electoral fraud. Now talk about the preliminary findings.
On Tuesday, he told the AP news agency that nothing had been revealed that could change the outcome of the election.
In an interview with the news agency, Barr says that state prosecutors and FBI agents have worked to follow up and investigate specific complaints and information they have received, but have found no evidence that changes the election results.
– To date, we have not seen voter fraud at a level that could have affected another election outcome, Barr says.
The Justice Minister’s remarks come despite repeated accusations by President Donald Trump that the election was stolen. Among the many accusations the Trump campaign has made is that the electoral machines removed Trump’s votes and transferred them to incoming President Joe Biden.
The Trump campaign was quick to respond to the Attorney General’s statement.
In a Tuesday night press release, they write, among other things:
– With all due respect to the Minister of Justice, there has been no special investigation by the Ministry of Justice.
In addition, in the statement, the campaign claims that they have gathered much evidence of illegal voting in “at least six states” that the Justice Ministry should not have investigated. They also claim that the ministry has not interviewed any of the witnesses who, according to the campaign, have seen evidence of electoral fraud.
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CLOSING: Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump of the United States. Photo: MANDEL NGAN / AFP
Barr has long been one of Trump’s most trusted supporters.
Before the presidential election, Barr has made repeated comments that mail-order votes could be particularly vulnerable to electoral fraud during the crown pandemic, because Americans were afraid to go to the polls and voted by mail, the news agency writes.
– There has been an accusation that it would have been a systematic fraud, and it would have been the accusation that the machines were programmed to alter the results of the elections. The Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Ministry of Justice have looked at it, and so far we haven’t seen anything substantial to back it up, Barr says.
A week after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election, US election officials responded to Trump’s claims, saying that this year’s election was “the safest election in American history.”
Follow up on allegations
Barr also says that people mix up the use of the federal court system and civil trials, where allegations of voter fraud must be made. He believes that there is a “growing trend” that when people do not like something, they want the Ministry of Justice to investigate the case.
For that to happen, it must first be based on the fact that it is a criminal act to investigate, Barr says. It also emphasizes that most allegations of voter fraud are not systematic cheating, and that these have now been and are being reviewed.
Also, there have been some allegations that could potentially cover a few thousand votes, according to Barr.
– These have been followed up, he says.
