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Billy Barr’s false claims about voting by mail

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...oting-by-mail/

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

— Attorney General William P. Barr, in an interview on “The Situation Room” on CNN, Sept. 2, 2020

Both statements are false. No one was indicted on a charge of casting 1,700 fraudulent ballots, and voter fraud is so rare in the United States, researchers describe it as a statistical blip whether the ballots are cast in-person or by mail.