For some election experts and Democrats, the prospect of similar uncertainty is especially worrisome this year, as Trump disparages mail-in voting as fraudulent and has claimed without evidence that widespread mail balloting will lead to a “rigged” election. “It’s very problematic,” s...
for example, it found only five cases since 2007 where there was a criminal conviction. In Florida, there were eight cases over a 20-year period, and in Ohio, seven cases over two decades. Overall, there have
“Trump is simply wrong about mail-in balloting raising a ‘tremendous’ potential for fraud,” Richard L. Hasen, an elections expert at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, wrote recently. “While certain pockets of the country have seen their share of absentee-ballot scandals...
"As hard as the president is working to make it less appealing for people to use absentee balloting, we are doing everything we can to make it convenient for people because of the health reasons, because of COVID-19, because it's the right thing to do," Barrett said Tuesday. Still, ...
Ron Wyden, a Democrat who has pushed vote-by-mail legislation since 2002 and pointed out that in his state, it was Republicans who initially led the push for mail-in balloting. “This is a fundamental judgment about the decency we’ve always had as Americans where we say, of course we...
“Then the President has some tweets and gets upset with mail-in balloting and we dropped the issue like a hot potato, and that’s where I think we’re making a mistake,” Bishop said. “Our voters are running away from it. That kind of terrifies me.” Bishop added bluntly: “I’...