Hans von Spakovsky: Absentee-ballot voting threatens the integrity of elections

Hans von Spakovsky, Manager at the Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, joins Secure Freedom Radio to discuss the impact of coronavirus on 2020 elections.

“The chief problem right now is the primaries. More than a dozen states have delayed or put off their primaries. Many of those states are thinking of switching from having polling places open, where people vote in person, to having all mail elections where people use absentee ballots to vote. The key issue with this switch is that there are ways to do this properly and ways not to do this. The ways not to do this are outlined in the coronavirus legislation that Nancy Pelosi tried to pass through Congress. Pelosi had all of these provisions that would have overwritten state laws governing absentee ballots which would have made it easier to cheat and manipulate election results. This is not the way voting should be done. The reason for this is simple- absentee ballots are the tools of choice for people who want to steal elections since this allows ballots to be filled without the supervision of election officials. So, it’s easier for voters to be intimidated, for ballots to be stolen and for ballots to be fraudulently forged or altered.  This is why we have to be very careful. I don’t think this is going to be a problem in the November 3 election because even the worst predictions of the coronavirus anticipate that we will have peaked by then.”

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