President Trump complains endlessly about unsound election systems, yet won't accept Democratic proposals to spend federal money to improve them. ed_kilgore writes
Mail ballots are no big problem if state and local elected officials have the resources to handle them properly. Photo: Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images Sometimes it’s hard to follow the president’s specific line of attack on voting by mail, as it shifts unpredictably from a general assault on that venerable practice, to phony distinctions between “mail ballots” and “absentee ballots,” to claims that millions of dead people will somehow be allowed to vote.
For all his demonization of “universal mail-in voting,” Trump has not trained his fire on the five states that already had that prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , presumably because they all have smoothly conducted elections with no sign of fraud.
Trump’s fear-mongering also ignores the fact that 43 states — including those that are mailing out ballots to all active registered voters — have ballot-security systems that at a minimum require signatures which have to be authenticated against those filed by the voters during the registration process.
“The problem is when they dump all these [ballots] in front of a few people who are counting them, and they’re going to count them wrong,” the president said in the interview, without offering evidence. “The post office is not to blame.” There is also a technological solution to the problem of uneven or unfair ballot signature authentication:
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