WASHINGTON — Vice-President Mike Pence is lambasting those who feel mail-in voting should be expanded for the 2020 election.
Pence is of the persuasion that expanded mail-in voting because of the coronavirus pandemic will lead to more fraud. He’s mirroring the views of President Trump on the issue, who tweeted his displeasure with the increased amount of mail-in voting in a special election in New Jersey.
“We’ve seen case after case across the country where there have been prosecutions. The president spoke about New Jersey and we’ve seen it in other states,” Pence told Fox News. “In my own state of Indiana in 2012, there was a Democrat super PAC that was involved in our election … a group of people was prosecuted for falsifying ballots.”
In a House hearing in which lawmakers questioned Attorney General Bill Barr, House Democrats accused Barr and others in the White House of trying to interfere in the 2020 election by trying to limit the ability of Americans to use mail-in voting as an alternative to voting in person.
Those in favor of expanded mail-in voting feel it will help negate the spread of coronavirus.
“In Democrat lead states, there’s an effort for the universal distribution of ballots without the accountability you have with absentee balloting,” Pence added. “When you combine that with states like California that actually allows ‘vote bundling’ or ‘vote harvesting’ you see where the potential for widespread fraud is very real.”
Pence believes if you do not want to vote in person for fear of contracting coronavirus you should apply for an absentee ballot. Only a handful of states allow mail-in voting already. Indiana is not one of those states.
