Republicans have dug in against Democratic proposals to expand mail-in balloting this fall as a fight over election rules becomes increasingly bitter.
The Wisconsin primary election, held amid the coronavirus outbreak, followed legal battles between the Democratic governor and Republican lawmakers.Commentary: Supreme Court gives Wisconsin a green light to disenfranchise voters during the pandemicDemocrats said the chaos in Wisconsin underscored the importance of planning for remote balloting in the general election.
“Mail ballots, they cheat. Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country,” he said Tuesday.More recently, he and other GOP leaders have been candid about another reason they are fighting mail ballots: They believe expanded voter participation could cost the GOP politically.Criticizing Democratic vote-by-mail proposals in Congress, Trump said on “Fox and Friends,” “They had a level of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.
In Michigan, Republicans are defending the constitutionality of laws that sharply restrict the collection of absentee ballots by third parties — a practice critics call “ballot harvesting,” which Republicans have blamed for their widespread losses in California in the 2018 midterm election.
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