“I allow the use of absentee ballots and have used them for more than five years,” Carter said in a statement Thursday.
He also referred to the findings of the Mail-Voting Commission in 2005 that Kyle McKinney, the Press Secretary of the Bar and White House, had done the job of abstaining from voting by mail.
Speaking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday, Barry referred to the “fundamental problem.” “The bipartisan commission, chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker, said … mail-in voting is fraught with risk of fraud and coercion.”
McNeny insisted early Thursday that Carter had “stated in 2005 that, as part of a bilateral commission, absentee ballots were the biggest source of potential voter fraud.”
The commission cited Reg Reagan in its report – who votes entirely by mail – as a model, noting that the state appears to have avoided significant fraud in its vote by introducing a vote to protect the integrity of ballots, including signature verification. “However, voting by mail is likely to increase the risk of fraud and fighting elections in other states, where the population is more mobile, where there is some history of troubled elections, or where the security of ballot integrity is weak.”
May’s statement from the Carter Center continued, “Fortunately, since 2005, many states have gained significant vote-by-mail experience and have shown how appropriate concerns can be effectively addressed through proper planning, resources, training and messaging.”
Such comments contradict the views of a wide range of bipartisan election officials and polling experts, who say that voting by mail is a safe defense to prevent systematic fraud.
There has been no widespread fraud in U.S. elections, but in states with a history of heavy mail-in voting.
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