To explain President Trump’s baseless crusade against vote-by-mail, Attorney General Bill Barr floated an unsubstantiated theory that foreign governments could hijack vote-by-mail elections by counterfeiting ballots.
I have a question for the lawyer types. Since my federal election vote is worth a fraction of someone who lives in, for example, Pennsylvania… Why do I have to pay the full Federal tax rate… Shouldn’t my federal tax rate reflect my representation? If my vote is less than someone else, I’m being represented at a fraction that I should be. Change the conversation. They want to talk about mail in ballots and fake problems, and I want to talk about how I’m not getting the percentage of representation I’m paying for.
He told the New York Times that “the voters” would referee the 2020 elections and that the Department’s role would be limited.
One uniformed Black Panther within 100 yards of a polling place and Barr will be launching the ready squad of the Serious Incident Response team: 40 lawyers strong and supplied with a large box of prescription stimulants. Unofficial channels will deliver rendezvous coordinates to “citizen militias.” On-call SIR squads will escalate to hot standby.
“We’ve been talking about how, in terms of foreign influence, there are a number of foreign countries that could easily make counterfeit ballots, put names on them, send them in. And it’d be very hard to sort out what’s happening,” Barr said in a New York Times
Trump agreed and said, “Russia, if you’re listening…”