NPR — The White House announced Monday on social media site plans to “lead a movement” to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines in the country ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Part of the plan includes signing an executive order that would bar states from using mail ballots and potentially some voting machines. Saying — without evidence — that voting machines are “highly inaccurate,” as well as more expensive than watermarked paper ballots.
Barbara Smith Warner, executive director of the National Vote at Home Institute, which advocates for wide use of mail-in voting, said it would be nearly impossible to actually get rid of mail-in voting in such a short timeframe. But she said she believes the larger effort here is to “destabilize” next year’s elections.
“Efforts to eliminate this are ignoring the facts and really are just trying to undermine confidence in our elections overall,” she said. “This is yet another power grab of federal overreach into the states’ rights to run their own election.”