Pelosi says mail-in voting is essential for
Americans’ health
The California Democrat went on the offensive, noting
that Trump’s family members have advocated mail-in voting in advertisements.
By ALLIE
BICE
08/02/2020
12:02 PM EDT
House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that mail-in voting in the upcoming election
will be an essential option for Americans‘ safety and well-being, despite
President Donald Trump’s claims that mail-in voting will lead to fraud and
delays.
On ABC’s
“This Week,” Pelosi went on the offensive about Trump’s claims — noting that
the president’s family members, including Donald Trump Jr., advocated mail-in
voting for a special election earlier this year in California.
“I know
that Republicans know how to do mail-in voting,” Pelosi said.
Trump has
not only warned of a delay in election results because of mail-in voting, but
also said the method could jeopardize the election’s integrity.
“If you do
universal mail-ins with millions and millions of ballots, you are never going
to know what the real result of an election is,” he said Friday. “It's going to
be a very, very sad day for our country."
Pelosi said
she doesn’t think mail-in voting is beneficial to one party or another but
added, “It is essential from a health reason because we want to keep people at
home to vote without having them all collect on Election Day, but if they do
want to vote in person, that we have sufficient spacing and all the rest so
it's not a risk to their health.”
“People
should not have to choose between their health and their vote, and that's very
important,” she said.
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