California State Election Official Confirms Double-Voting by Mail in Super Tuesday Primary; Trump Lays Bare the Republicans’ Mail-In Voting Hypocrisy
By Breitbart. California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has confirmed that double-voting by mail took place in the March 3, 2020, Super Tuesday primary, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
Days before Super Tuesday, citizen watchdog group Election Integrity Project California sent a letter to Padilla requesting his office look into possible double voting in the 2020 primary election.
More than a month later, in a letter dated April 7, 2020, Padilla confirmed double-voting in one case and suspected double-voting by a number of other registered voters on Super Tuesday, according to the letter obtained by Breitbart News.
Padilla confirmed in at least one case that two ballots from one voter were “opened and counted on election night.” Twelve of the 15 total registered voters identified with “duplicate voting history” are “suspected to have cast two ballots for the March primary election,” Padilla wrote in the letter.
In the remaining two cases, Padilla said county election officials “caught the duplicate voter records prior to election day and only one vote was tallied.” Padilla said the findings have been “forwarded to investigators to follow-up as necessary with the voters.” (Read more from “California State Election Official Confirms Double-Voting by Mail in Super Tuesday Primary” HERE)
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Trump Lays Bare the Republicans’ Mail-In Voting Hypocrisy
By The Hill. Donald Trump warns that if voting is made easier for more people — especially some still frightened by the pandemic — “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
The president, who has been caught in thousands of lies, is saying what he really believes even if it’s hyperbole. This may be an example of a political gaffe, which Michael Kinsley described as when a politician tells “some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”
This is an especially critical issue now, as parts of the country could be imperiled by the novel coronavirus’s second strike in November; the harbinger might be this month’s elections in Wisconsin, where there was a surge of absentee ballots — though in the confusion some were not counted, and others citizens were forced to choose between their health or in-person voting.
A major fight is brewing in Congress over whether to provide states with real resources to craft alternatives — more voting by mail, simplifying absentee voting, opening more and less crowded polling venues. This is fiercely opposed by Trump and Mitch McConnell as they see it helping lower income voters of color, students and citizens with disabilities. (Read more from “Trump Lays Bare the Republicans’ Mail-In Voting Hypocrisy” HERE)
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