Trump campaign lawyer who went on to vote by mail has done so three times: report

A Trump campaign lawyer who has criticized the vote by mail has done so three times, CNN reported Tuesday, citing public records it had obtained.

The media outlet reported that Jenna Ellis, who said that expanded mail voting creates “ample opportunity for fraud “ Voted by mail in Colorado in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Colorado it is one of the five states in the country that conducts elections by mail. The Centennial State has been mailing all registered voters ballots by mail since 2013.

Ellis has tried to create a distinction between “absent” vote and “vote by mail“Saying that one is when an individual verified voter receives a ballot in the mail and the other is when a state sends” millions of unsolicited, unsupervised, unsupervised ballots to addresses and people NOT VERIFIED. “

Each state has different mail voting rules, many of which have changed to accommodate pandemic-related concerns. Some states have expanded voting by mail by sending each registered voter a ballot by mail and reducing polling places.

In a statement to CNN, Ellis defended his criticism of the vote by mail and said Trump “is absolutely right that the vote by mail is ready for fraud.”

“I live in Colorado, and unfortunately my state is one of only five that are universal vote-by-mail states,” he told CNN. President TrumpDonald John TrumpWayfair refutes QAnon-like conspiracy theory that he is trafficking children Stone criticizes the US justice system in the first television interview since Trump commuted his sentence The federal appeals court rules that the Trump administrator cannot withhold the federal grants from California sanctuary cities MORE and I agree that it is a flawed method of organizing an election, and I will continue to work to change it, I will not let that discourage me from exercising my right to vote. “

Trump and other Republicans have been against the practice, claiming without evidence that voting by mail generates more fraud. Studies have found voter fraud is extremely rare, even in postal voting.

A Hill-HarrisX survey Last month, she found that while many voters are concerned about the safety of mail ballots, they are more concerned about the health risks of voting in person. The survey found that 55 percent of voters said exposure to the virus was a greater concern, compared to 45 percent who said that their altered vote through mail-in vote was a greater concern.