In a break from our usual coronavirus programming, we recently got a quick look ahead to a looming issue that has major implications for the 2020 elections: voting by mail. President Trump’s cautionary tweet regarding the risk of voting by mail was met immediately by so-called fact checks. Not only is there a wealth of supporting evidence from both sides of the aisle that mail-in voting is a risk to election security, but soon after Trump was “fact-checked,” a report surfaced of one form of mail-in voter fraud in West Virginia. For today’s fact-checkers, life comes at you fast.
Mail-in voting has long been part of the Left’s wishlist, and as usual, Democrats are not letting a good crisis go to waste. One of the House Democrats’ first agenda items during the outbreak of the coronavirus was a push for nationwide voting by mail.
