Correction, Please!
Pelosi, Progressives Press Federal Mandates on Voting, Including Ballot Harvesting
Item: House “Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the nation must move to a vote-by-mail system amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis and that she plans to advocate funding for that in the next stimulus measure,” according to Bloomberg. “In terms of the elections, I think that we will probably be moving to vote by mail,” Pelosi told MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ program Tuesday [March 31]. She called it ‘a reality of life’ amid the outbreak.”
“President Donald Trump,” said the Bloomberg article, “criticized efforts by Democrats to expand voter access to November’s presidential election … in an interview [on March 30] with Fox News. Democrats had pushed for such measures in the $2.2 trillion rescue package Trump signed last week, but most were removed.”
Item: Stephen Wolf, elections writer for the Daily Kos, commented on March 9 on that Internet forum: “Thanks in part to Donald Trump lying to downplay the impending crisis for his own self-interest, the virus threatens to create major disruptions in many aspects of life and risk the lives of countless Americans. This is why it’s critical that we take steps as soon as possible to ensure that November’s election runs smoothly, and every state should adopt universal voting by mail.” This piece was reprinted on March 22 (among many such others) by the blog “votingbymail.org.”
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