Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she will vote in person for the November election.
“I am voting early and in person,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Sunday. “What’s your voting plan?”
I am voting early and in person.
What’s your voting plan?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 20, 2020
The New York congresswoman has been a supporter of mail-in voting, including after the pandemic hit the United States earlier this year.
At the start of the summer, Ocasio-Cortez issued a warning that Republicans don’t support mail-in balloting because it would weaken their supposed efforts to disenfranchise black voters.
“Republicans don’t want vote by mail bc it chips away at their ability to do exactly this: target and disenfranchise Black voters and people of color,” she tweeted at the time. “These scenes are specifically happening in Black communities, not white ones. This is BY DESIGN,& it’s their test run for Nov.”
She is also a member of the so-called “Squad,” whose members have pushed for mail-in voting, including when they released a list of issues in April that they demanded be included in a coronavirus relief package.
President Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill have denounced mail-in measures from Democratic colleagues, citing potential fraud and a delay in a final tally count.
“Mail ballots, they cheat,” Trump said in August. “Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters. They go collect them. They are fraudulent in many cases. They have to vote. They should have voter ID, by the way.”
Ocasio-Cortez was an outspoken supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders in his bid for the White House this election cycle but has since signaled her support for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“November is about survival,” she said last week. “Voting for Joe Biden is no longer about whether you agree with him. It’s a vote to let our democracy live another day.”
