Attorney General Todd Blanche fiercely defended the Trump administration's push to impose tighter mail voting rules, telling CBS News the DOJ is examining election practices in multiple states.
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AG calls mail fraud 'common sense'; whistleblower says agents hunting it were ordered to break the law.
“They tell you it's common sense so you stop asking for the receipt, and then it turns out the guys sent to get the receipt were told to break state law getting it. That's not an investigation, that's the fraud wearing a badge. And the Attorney General's on camera calling it obvious about a case he hasn't shown one page of — that's not confidence, that's the tell.”
“Look, the Attorney General said "common sense" because everyone understands mail voting carries some risk, that's not a legal finding, it's a phrase, it doesn't need a case number behind it. As for the whistleblower, that's one person's account, DHS denies it, and until there's a finding this is just Senate Democrats doing what Senate Democrats do, which is — huh, produce a specific complaint that agents were ordered to break state law, that's actually pretty specific for something you're calling politics. I stand by the common sense thing.”
The receipts
A whistleblower claimed a Department of Homeland Security effort to investigate voter fraud violated state laws, a charge the agency denies. On Monday, Senate Democrats announced their reveal of a whistleblower complaint regarding a DHS effort to investigate voter fraud. According to the whistleblower, DHS had directed U.S.
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