PATERSON — The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office this week provided lawyers for indicted Paterson Councilmen Michael Jackson and Alex Mendez with thousands of pages of alleged evidence in the state election fraud case against them. Lawyers for the two councilmen said they will closely review the files they received from the state in the “discovery” part of the criminal case, the point when the prosecution shares with the accused whatever evidence it plans to use. They said the volume of documents should not be seen as a sign that the state has a strong case. “The quantity doesn’t matter,” said Ted Kyles, Jackson’s lawyer. “It depends on the quality. We have to examine these files very closely to see what they have and what they don’t have.”