A CNN report from 2008 shows former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz calling mail-in ballots a “risky” idea and that she is concerned about possible fraud.
“Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz argues a mail-in ballot has wrong written all over it,” a CNN report said in 2008 before showing a clip of a speech from Wasserman Schultz in which she called the process a “risky experiment.”
“It’d be a risky experiment for us with an election that has stakes as high as a presidential election. We’ve never done a mail-in ballot statewide,” Wasserman Schultz added.
The report then says, “Wasserman Schultz is worried about signature fraud, disenfranchising college students, getting addresses wrong, and having private donors instead of states footing the bill.”
“There’s a way to solve this without totally redoing this and causing more chaos,” Wasserman Schultz said regarding the idea of implementing more mail-in ballots.
FLASHBACK: In 2008, Democrat @DWStweets contended that mail-in ballots would be “risky experiment” due to stakes of presidential elections.
She was worried it could “cause more chaos.” pic.twitter.com/eF5U9OhqZk
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 28, 2020
This past April, Wasserman Schultz pushed for the expansion of mail-in voting, arguing that it’s too dangerous for people to go to polling places during the coronavirus outbreak.
A month earlier, Wasserman Schultz herself voted at a polling place in a Florida election and told everyone it was safe to do so despite the fact the coronavirus was already causing devastation across the world and the first case in the United States had been confirmed.
“I am comfortable being out here, casting my vote early and really want to encourage folks that if they are comfortable, they can have that confidence too,” she said at the time.
Democrats across the country have been pushing for mail-in voting, citing coronavirus fears over President Trump’s objections that voter fraud and millions of missing mail-in ballots make the system ripe for abuse.
