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GOP Officials In Uncomfortable Position Now, Trying To Encourage Mail-In Voting After Past Rhetoric

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Absentee voting should be allowed in every state, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The republicans don't want all Americans to vote, because they may lost elections, voter suppression is the game they've been playing for years. Shame on them all, this is still America.

Republican state officials who want to expand absentee and mail-in voting during the pandemic have found themselves in an uncomfortable position due to their party's rhetoric.

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams told NPR he got his "head taken off" by some fellow Republicans for his plan to send every registered voter a postcard telling them how they can easily apply for an absentee ballot for the state's June 23 primary.

"The biggest challenge I have right now is making the concept of absentee voting less toxic for Republicans," he said.

Adams said the presumption that absentee voting is less secure is frustrating because Kentucky has safeguards in place to protect against fraud — including requiring people to apply for ballots instead of automatically sending them to everyone on the voter rolls.
But Adams admitted he is partly to blame. Like many Republicans, he ran for office on a platform of fighting voter fraud. His campaign slogan was to "make it easy to vote and hard to cheat."

"People who think that Donald Trump is going to have the election stolen by mail, it's just absurd," he said.

Adams is not the only Republican secretary of state caught in a similar position while trying to address the concerns of voters and poll workers about the potential health risks of in-person voting. Health officials in Wisconsin report that nearly 70 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed in voters and poll workers who took part in the state's April 7 election.
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Voter Fraud Claims Make It Hard For GOP To Expand Voting By Mail : NPR
 
I cannot imagine a democratic nation that would have a problem with this at a time like this...

But allowing people to vote is a deathknell to the Republican Party and that's why they skirt the law in every conceivable way to stop people from being able to vote wherever they can.

Making it easy and convenient and safe for people to vote is not in the interests of the Republican Party.

And as soon as you let that sink in, you see what kind of a political party they truly are.
 
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