Elections experts say Barr is wrongly suggesting that mail-in ballots somehow violate people's privacy and that he is ignoring safeguards that are in place to ensure the security of people's ballots when they vote by mail
Washington Attorney General William Barr has become one of the staunchest supporters of the President's campaign against mail-in voting. Speaking in Phoenix on Thursday, Barr continued to push false and negative narratives about mail-in voting.
"There's no more secret vote, there's no secret vote," Barr said."Your name is associated with a particular ballot. The government and the people involved can find out and know how you voted. And it opens up the door to coercion.
Of Barr's claim that"governments and the people involved" can find out how someone voted, Charles Stewart, a political science professor at MIT, said"that's just incorrect, if people follow the law." Read MoreAs he has done on many previous occasions, Barr is questioning the validity of mail-in balloting, even though millions of Americans, including Barr, have used this method to vote.
About a third of states verify signatures as well and match voter information from ballots to existing voter registration records to confirm that the person who voted aligns with the person whose ballot it is. When the election official receives the ballot, after confirming the signature matches what's on file for the voter, the second envelope containing the ballot is removed and sent to be tabulated without any information that could identify the voter associated with it.
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