Attorney General Barr: Mass Mail-In Voting Like ‘Playing With Fire’

“We’re a very closely divided country here, and people have to have confidence in the legitimacy of the government,” he said. “People trying to change the rules to this methodology, which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion, is reckless and dangerous, and people are playing with fire.”

The interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer covered a wide range of topics from Jacob Blake, treason accusations, systemic racism, and voting. Barr explained that the risks of voter fraud, coercion, and other vulnerabilities with mail-in ballots are too high to implement on a national basis.

While he believes absentee voting is acceptable because it requires a request to a specific address, Barr argued that there are multiple instances of mass mail-in ballots going wrong. He even offered examples, telling the story of one Texan man that indicted by the Attorney General’s office for marking his preferred candidate on 1,700 ballots.