A law professor University of California, Irvine, wrote back on May 20 in the Election Law Blog that there was a “genuine absentee ballot fraud scandal going on in Paterson, New Jersey and it is going to get a lot of national attention.” But that is just what it has not gotten over the past month, while national media have repeatedly attached the phrase “with no evidence” to all reports of President Trump’s warnings that mail-in elections could be fraudulent. A search of news items about the Paterson fraud on Google turns up only one item of coverage outside North Jersey local media in the past month, a June 14 video on NBC News Channel 4 in New York City.
Again today, a flagrant op-ed in the Washington Post by Obama Justice Department official Joshua Geltzer is called, “Here’s how William Barr is already flagrantly undermining the election". And aside from the bizarre claim that Barr intervened in the 2020 election by the DoJ dropping charges against Gen. Michael Flynn, Geltzer writes that Barr is “actively spreading disinformation himself. He echoes Trump’s debunked claims that mail-in ballots — which will be crucial during the pandemic — somehow leave the country vulnerable to election fraud and interference. Barr recently told Fox News that these votes could `open the floodgates of potential fraud,’ without providing any basis for the claim.”
