President Donald Trump is claiming without evidence that expanding mail-in voting will increase voter fraud. While Trump has complained that voting by mail is “ripe for fraud," Republican state officials in Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia have all taken steps to ease access to mail-in ballots, following
President Donald Trump is claiming without evidence that expanding mail-in voting will increase voter fraud. But several GOP state officials are forging ahead to do just that, undermining one of Trump’s arguments about how elections should be conducted amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump’s comments put his Republican allies in states in the awkward position of trying to defend their practices without criticizing the president. Some said they agreed with Trump, even as their actions seem to suggest otherwise. Others suggested Trump was out of line. Iowa is mailing requests for absentee ballots to all 2.1 million registered voters ahead of special elections in July. Pate described the move as a reaction to “an emergency,” adding: “You need to have some flexibility."
In West Virginia, voters are receiving applications for mail ballots for the state's upcoming primary. On Thursday, the state's Republican secretary of state, Mac Warner, told reporters he agrees with Trump that “voting by mail just opens up opportunity for fraud," but said he believed his state has necessary safeguards.
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