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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine expressed confidence on Sunday about no-excuse mail-in-votes in his state, making him one of a sizable group of Republican state officials who are defending the practice for the November election, despite Trump’s attacks on vote-to-mail -as inherently fraudulent.
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KEY FACTS
“Because many states have expanded post-voting to address the health risks posed by personal voting in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has argued that post-vote voting is widespread.”dangerous“En”substantially fraudulent, “Opposite experts who say the practice is effectively as safe as other forms of voting.
On Tuesday, Trump endorsed Florida as the only state in which voting for mail-in is “safe and secure,” along with recent Republican administrations, as he launched his legal efforts to expand voting for mail-in states in other states. stop.
In addition to universal support from Democrats, voting for mail-in has also found defenders under the GOP, including DeWine, who has previously parried Trump’s attacks on the mail-in vote and who spoke on CNN’s State of the Union that he is “comfortable” with allowing all voters in the state to request a vote for a mail.
“We have long experience in voting by mail,” said DeWine of Ohio, where he says voting by mail “has worked extraordinarily well,” he said, “it will work.”
Other Republicans who are defending extended vote by email include Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Government of Alaska Mike Dunleavy, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, and Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, as well as the Republican Secretaries of State of Ohio, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Kentucky, West Virginia, Iowa and Georgia.
Crucial quote
Many Republicans have sounded the alarm bells about the election effects of Trump’s anti-post-election polls amid polls that show Republican voters have relatively low confidence in voting by mail. “The fact that your so-called party leaders have parroted Trump’s BS on postal ballot is basically putting a knife to their own election candidates,” Republican National Commission President Michael Steele said earlier this month.
Chief critic
Even though DeWine supports voting by mail, some on the left feel the Republican leaders of the state are more able to expand access to voters. The Ohio Democratic Party and the League of Women Voters have filed lawsuits that require Ohio residents to submit absent voting applications by email. Ohio State Secretary Frank LaRose, a Republican, supports the creation of an online portal, but the legislature has not taken action on such a proposal. The packages also include security measures such as signature matching.
What to see
The Trump administration is seeking timely action to curb mail-in voting in states that have expanded it. But election processes are largely determined at the state and local levels, which means that the bulk of pivotal post-in decisions will ultimately be up to administrators like DeWine.
