'How secure!': RNC chairwoman rips mail-in voting after South Carolina ballots turn up in Maryland
South Carolina election ballots somehow ended up in Maryland this week after mail-in voting for South Carolina’s June 9 primary gets underway. “Maryland election officials found a bunch of ballots from South Carolina mixed in with their shipments to Baltimore,” Baltimore Sun reporter Emily Opilo tweeted. “They use the same vendor. I just talked to an elections official in SC, and he says they're ready to dump the company.”
South Carolina officials say this isn’t the first time they’ve had trouble with SeaChange, the Minnesota-based printer they use, which prints and mails ballots for 13 South Carolina counties, according to Fox News. A South Carolina election official told the Post and Courier that some voters had issues receiving their absentee ballots when the Democratic presidential primary and a special election for sheriff were held 10 days apart earlier this year. Due to coronavirus concerns, more mail-in ballots are expected to be cast this year than ever before, and Democrats across the country have been pushing for expanded mail-in voting wherever possible.
House Democrats included over $3 billion in funding for expanded mail-in voting in their most recent coronavirus relief package proposal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the move by calling in-person voting too dangerous at the moment. “Standing in those lines, for that amount of time, going to places that are enclosed, is dangerous to your health,” she said, before adding the process is “more democratic.” “It gives people more options. It removes obstacles and barriers to voting, which is what we want to do.”
Republicans maintain that reports of 28 million missing mail-in ballots over the last decade, a significant amount of confirmed voter fraud cases in the United States and this week’s situation with South Carolina’s ballots raise too many questions about the security of mail-in voting. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel defended President Trump’s position that mail-in voting is susceptible to fraud by citing the South Carolina ballot mix-up. “The media argues @realDonaldTrump has 'no evidence' of mail-in ballot problems,” McDaniel tweeted. “Oh really? Look what just happened in SC, where Dems sued to force a rushed transition to mail with no safeguards. Their ballots magically appeared in Baltimore. How secure!”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/how-secure-rnc-chair-rips-mail-in-voting-after-south-carolina-ballots-turn-up-in-maryland
https://twitter.com/emilyopilo/status/1263189808987463682
https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1263527450606219266