Donald Trump is making war on postal voting. The facts do not support it

Michigan State Jocelyn Benson does not follow the US president on Twitter. She was sitting in his basement for breakfast office, on May 20, when their employees to inform you said Donald Trump Benson called “rogue Secretary of State,” had by mailing ballots to voters of Michigan (accused of fact, applications election was) and (erroneously suggesting) that postal voting would lead to fraud. Oh, and he threatened to withhold funding from the topic Michigan. (It is not clear what the funding was reported ;. The White House did not respond to a comment) request What Benson was on top of the episode, a Democrat, was not only as Trump had them, the factual inaccuracies or threat hidden in his Tweet. It ‘was the only state that was not like this to take a step. States like Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia won the Trump in 2016, and the Republican State Secretaries were taken into sending requests for absentee ballots in the middle of the crown pandemic, similar, at least for their measures primaries. “This is nothing more than I do my work. And it is the same policy, the postal vote that voters on both sides of the aisle hug,” says Benson. “For me it was just in bad faith that, while my Republican colleagues have the same thing that I raised in part, I’ll’m sure why I’m a Democrat. I’m sure it is relevant that Michigan has to play an important leading role in this year’s elections. it helps to feed into a national history that happened gimmicks in states that are crucial to the election.. “Made a false narrative before the pandemic, five states (Washington, Utah , Hawaii, Oregon and Colorado), all of the elections email, and three (California, North Dakota and Nebraska, the latter with some exceptions) have given the district the opportunity to determine their own rules, according to the national Conference of State legislatures. Twenty-nine states plus Washington, DC have no excuse vote by mail, which means that voters do not need a reason to request an absentee ballot. But threatened with the prospect of the crown disorder elections, others have moved to make the vote more accessible for correspondence, take some steps to primary elections and another for the general election. Three states (Michigan, New Hampshire and California) changes were made to increase the availability vote by mail in November. Michigan has announced it will send the applications for general absentee ballot elections. New Hampshire, which is usually not a no-vote state apology by correspondence decided to vote by mail in November to allow, when the pandemic is still a factor, a decision announced by the Republican governor of the state. And California will distribute vote by mail cards to all of its registered voters. In recent weeks, Trump took to these changes, turning a method to ensure the electorate health and remote access to a wrong political wedge designed with the argument that will lead to widespread electoral fraud and creating fear among election experts, who the president undermines the legitimacy of the contest. The irony of this is the fact that Trump often chosen from the same post. There is little evidence, experts say that part allows political advantage from the people to vote by mail, while the sites that use it to see increases overall turnout. And it is not only the Democrats are pushing the idea: Republicans also have secretaries of used state and other managers in the red states. “I am bumfuzzled by the President of the vote by correspondence objection. If not better in historically done well,” Republicans electronic difficult scenarios said Michael Steel, one Republican strategist. “They tend to be disproportionately used by older voters, who disproportionately tend to vote Republican.” “It ‘s kind of a mystery why it took this particular battle to have at this time with a raging pandemic and a very close election report,” ADDITIONS steel. “If I were president, I would encourage the Republican Party at the national level and to invest in the country in infrastructure to ensure that we can vote successfully via e-mail.” You do not have to go far to find an example must reach to help the postal vote Republican. The special election May to 25th Congressional District of California was conducted mostly by mail. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom had sent the ballots stamped and addressed envelopes for each registered voter. Policy Analysis Data Inc., the data of voters established showed that more votes were in. Even if all the voters of the approximately 425,000 ballots 34% were sent back to the Democrats, the Republicans gave them at a higher rate. The office is earlier by a Democrat, he has been gaining the Republican candidate, Mike Garcia. Do not say postal voting favors Republicans, either. A study published this spring by Stanford University studied counties in a handful of states that voting programs implemented by correspondence and voting by mail is complete “does not appear to increase both the proportion of the vote.” The researchers concluded, it is difficult to extrapolate their results to wider use during a pandemic. But in general, “vote by mail with an overwhelming majority party an advantage over the other,” said Daniel Thompson, a graduate student at Stanford and lead author of the study. In Michigan County May 5 municipal elections, the turnout was double last contests in May in 25% of voters, those with 99%, and the vote to do via e-mail. Vote by mail is just as popular in Republican and Democratic Communities, Benson said. “The voting possibilities for actually increased significantly through participation at the board.” However, many followed Trump allies attack in the process. The Republican National Committee, the National Republican Campaign Committee, and the California GOP has presented this week filed a lawsuit against Newsom and Secretary of State Alex Padilla to expand voting by mail in California, claiming it would be “fraud, coercion, theft, cargo and otherwise illegitimate vote. “complaints about the voting rights held in several states, including Texas, where Democrats sought to expand by mail vote. Sam Reed, a lawyer for the item-by-mail, which served 2001-2013 as a Republican Secretary of State in Washington, says it suggests that the vote will be sent to electoral fraud “is completely wrong.” He pointed to the controls in place to prevent such staff take on the election of state police training, how to check the signatures. “We have very tight systems,” says Reed. But Trump has a history of pushing bogus voter fraud stories. It has, despite the fact that further studies are rarely proven long conspiracy of widespread election fraud. A Commission electoral fraud was the president in force until January 2018 resolved nothing to show for it. Tweets from the President on election fraud has even led Twitter to try to do the controls for the first time on Tuesday. In response to a tweet stating in part that “have mailboxes have no cards to be forged and even printed illegally and fraudulently signed,” the social media platform added to un’utenti label, “Get the facts about for direct e-mail in ballot. “asked on Thursday by TIME if the observations of the President of postal voting were an attempt to lay the basis responded to doubts about the election results of November, the White House press Kayleigh McEnany:” no, certainly not to do with. reporting by Brian Bennett.
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