In an interview with CBS News' Nicole Sganga, Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed mail-in voting carried a greater risk of fraud than in-person voting with ID. When asked what evidence he had to support his statement, he responded, "Well, it's common sense."
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Blanche calls mail-fraud evidence 'common sense'; the agents actually hunting it were ordered to break state law.
“They didn't need evidence, they needed a pretext, and pretext doesn't require a subpoena — just a guy on TV saying "common sense" while his own agents are told to lie their way into your voter file. That's not enforcement, that's a fishing expedition with a badge, and the fish they're after are eligible voters two months before an election. Follow the paperwork: the fraud they can't prove is being used to justify agents committing the one they can.”
“Look, "common sense" is not nothing — courts use common-sense standards all the time, that's practically a legal doctrine. And these are just agents doing routine diligence checks on voter rolls, verifying IDs, totally by the book — okay, misrepresenting their identities to pull private state records isn't exactly in the training manual, fair point. Did I say routine? That doesn't sound like me.”
The receipts
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla on Monday accused the Trump administration of directing federal immigration officers to violate state laws in an aggressively quixotic campaign to identify supposed “unlawful voters,” warning that the operation could ensnare American citizens and undermine the…
Federal agents may have broken state laws after the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, a federal whistleblower alleges.
· 'Democracy Is Under Attack': Civil Rights Lawsuit Aims to Block Trump Assault on Mail-In Voting from the morgue, 27 Aug 2026
· 'Voter Suppression, Plain and Simple': Lawsuit Aims to Stop Trump From Sending ICE to Polling Sites from the morgue, 10 Sep 2026
· Trump 'Laying the Groundwork for Election Meddling' With DHS Hunt for Noncitizen Voters from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
· Trump Administration Launches Hunt For Noncitizen Voter Fraud Before Midterms from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
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