A majority of Americans favor changing election laws to allow everyone to vote by mail, new polling shows, but Republicans are far less likely than Democrats to agree, highlighting a deep partisan divide on the issue ahead of November's election.
According to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 58% of Americans favor permanently changing election laws to allow everyone to vote by mail. But just 31% of Republicans agree, compared to 82% of Democrats. And 61% of those who say they get their news from Fox News oppose vote-by-mail.This divide comes as President Donald Trump has emerged as the driving force behind anti-vote-by-mail sentiments.
Voter fraud is rare, but one recent prominent case of election fraud involving ballot harvesting involved a Republican campaign operative in North Carolina who was charged with collecting and tampering with ballots on behalf of a congressional candidate in that state, in violation of North Carolina law Despite the bold claims from the President's campaign, several conservatives and Republican officials contacted by CNN, even those who oppose expansions of mail-in voting, were unwilling to...
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