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“There’s no evidence of fraud in mail-in ballots, part infinity,” CNN’s then-editor-at-large Chris Cillizza wrote in 2020. The Associated Press’ Nicholas Riccardi wrote in 2020 that then-President Donald Trump “continued his assault on the integrity of the U.S. elections” after Trump said there would be “fraud” because of mail-in voting. And according to the Brookings Institution, “There is no evidence that mail ballots increase electoral fraud.”

Yet this past Friday a Texas man was sentenced to four years in prison for ballot fraud during the 2020 election cycle. During the 2020 Carrollton mayoral election, 43 year-old candidate Zul Mirza Mohamed forged mail-in ballot applications using residents’ names and then “had the ballots sent to a Lewisville mail store where he leased a virtual mailbox using fake IDs,” according to Denton Record-Chronicle.

Elections Administrator Frank Phillips reportedly testified that his office became suspicious after noticing multiple mail-in ballot requests were being made from the same address. The residents whose names were used by Mohamed later told investigators they never made the requests, according to Denton Record-Chronicle.

During the investigation, it was determined that Mohamed picked up a box of ballots that was sent to the Lewisville facility and then brought the box back to his home address, according to the report. Authorities eventually found the box of ballots inside Mohamed’s home along with fraudulent IDs and a fake notary stamp. According to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Mohamed “was in the process of stuffing envelopes with additional mail ballot applications for neighboring Dallas County” when he was arrested.

Mohamed pleaded guilty to 106 felony charges related to his illegal operations, according to the report.

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, the propaganda press, which has been obsessed with falsely claiming mail-in balloting isn’t tainted or susceptible to fraud, is mum about the case. A cursory search of Mohamed’s sentencing turns up nothing on CNN, The Associated Press, or other left-wing outlets. And while Mohamed’s case involved a few dozen ballots, even non outcome-determinative fraud is still fraud. But the left-wing propaganda press has spent years dismissing concerns about the vulnerabilities and insecurities associated with the mail-in ballot system, and reporting on such a case would undermine the years-long effort they spent lying to the public about mail-in balloting.

Take for example how some of these outlets covered a similar incident involving mail-in ballot fraud. A 2023 Bridgeport, Connecticut, mayoral primary race was overturned by a judge after evidence showed affiliates of the Democrat-incumbent mayor and candidate “stuffing ballot boxes.” When CNN finally got around to covering the story that became too big to ignore, CNN’s Marshall Cohen tried to couch the concerns about the voter-fraud by saying “election experts say this fearmongering about fraud in US elections is overblown.” CNN later posted a separate video showing evidence of the illegal voting scheme — but used it to blame President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters for raising concerns about mail-in voting. Meanwhile, The Associated Press spent five paragraphs trying to downplay concerns about mail-in voter fraud before covering what the judge described as the “shocking” evidence pointing to mail-in ballot fraud.

Despite the propaganda press’ best efforts to downplay or even dismiss concerns about election fraud, cases continually pop up across the country, only further undermining the left-wing media’s credibility.

Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2