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Is Voting By Mail a Good Idea?
“Paper ballots are extremely susceptible to fraud.” — Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)
Vote By Mail?
Many prominent Democrats are pushing efforts to change voting laws and make voting by mail more widely available nationwide in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but President Trump is standing in opposition.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tried to pass a coronavirus bill that would have forced all states to mail absentee ballots to all registered voters, rather than allowing states to require a signed, absentee ballot request form that can be authenticated by election officials before a ballot is sent to the voter.
Marc Elias, a veteran election attorney currently involved in litigation in more than a dozen states, has advocated for pre-paid postage for mail-in ballots and extending the postmark deadline to Election Day.
The mainstream media has joined in with Democrats support of mail-in ballots and even Twitter fact-checked one of President Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time.
“There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than
substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone…