Mail-in Ballots

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Republicans set to push mail ballots, voting methods they previously blasted as recipes for fraud

ATLANTA (AP) — After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud, Republicans at the top of the party want to change course.

https://apnews.com/article/ballot-harvesting-early-voting-election-2024-republicans-a844f375bb86b012cfba0e67b3f77fb7?

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Mail-in ballots

President Trump announced on Monday that he will sign an executive order aimed at getting rid of mail-in ballots. In a post on his social media site, he claimed: * Mail-in ballots were “Highly ‘Inaccurate’” * The effort to abolish mail-in voting would be opposed by the Democrats “BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE” * The US is the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting because all of the others gave it up due to “MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD”  According to Daniel Dale, senior reporter and fact-checker for CNN, all of these claims are false. Mail-in voting is a legitimate method used by legitimate voters to cast legitimate ballots. Experts say that while the incidence of fraud tends to be marginally higher with mail-in ballots than with in-person ballots, fraud rates in federal elections are minuscule even with mail-in ballots. There is no basis for the assertion of massive cheating. US federal elections are free and fair, and there has generally been a tiny quantity of ballot fraud representing a very small percentage of votes cast. Lastly, dozens of other countries use mail-in voting, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. ps:Again back to this Bull Manure!!