Studies show that there is no evidence that mail-in voting gives any party an edge — and it could even increase voter turnout. So why is President Trump so against it? smerconish explores.
The President's harsh and often baseless criticism of vote-by-mail is significantly ratcheting up as more and more states loosen their vote-by-mail restrictions proactively or on court orders. The latest: Texas, where a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that all voters can request an absentee ballot if they fear contracting the coronavirus by going to the polls in person, dealing a blow to Republicans in the state who had argued against sending ballots for that reason.
He can't hold up funding to prevent people from voting."Other secretaries of state, including Republicans, have sent absentee ballot applications to all voters ahead of upcoming elections. Among them, West Virginia, Georgia, Iowa, and Nebraska. And other states have changed their upcoming primaries to entirely vote-by-mail because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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