Is it because he feels it's such a temptation for GOP voters to abuse the system? Take the case of former State of CO GOP Chairman Steve Curtis...
"Curtis was the state’s GOP chairman from 1997 to 1999, and caused a stir ahead of the 2016 election when he said on KLZ 560: “It seems to be, and correct me if I’m wrong here, but virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats."
Now fast forward to 2017...
"Steve Curtis, the former chairman for the Colorado Republican Party, was found guilty Thursday by a Weld County jury of voter fraud and forgery.
Curtis, 58, was arrested in March and accused of signing his wife’s mail-in ballot for her, which is a misdemeanor in Colorado. He was also charged with forgery of a public record, a fifth-degree felony.
His ex-wife had moved to South Carolina and learned her ballot had already been cast when she called the county clerk to see how she could vote from there.
“He knew exactly what he was doing,” argued Deputy District Attorney Tate Costin during closing arguments. “He received it in the mail, opened it, voted, signed it, sealed it back up and sent it in. If he were going to sign a name during this confused diabetic state, wouldn’t he sign his own name? Why her name? She hadn’t even lived in the house for 11 months.”
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...ve-curtis-found-guilty-of-voter-fraud-forgery
Or on the Dem side, how about WVA postman Thomas Cooper who pled guilty this week to altering voter registrations on requests for absentee ballots? Oh wait, that was on the GOP side as well, since Cooper admitted to switching the ballot requests of people he didn't know from Dem TO GOP, as a "joke"...
"In April, per a statement from the Department of Justice, the county clerk found absentee ballot requests from eight voters that were tampered with a black ink pen, five of which had their party affiliation switched to Republican. Three others that had their affiliation already set to Republican were altered but did not have their political party changed. All ballots were located in Pendleton County."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/west-virginia-mail-carrier-guilty-104244819.html
Now, this can't be right, because our Dear Leader assured us that it's the dastardly Democrats who are eager to perpetrate massive fraud on the electoral process...
I think the spokesman for the Colo Dem Party (Eric Walker) summed this issue up quite succinctly...
"Voter fraud is a virtually non-existent problem that Republicans use as an excuse to justify voter suppression tactics. In fact, voter fraud is so rare that the only person to be charged and convicted of committing voter fraud in Colorado in the 2016 election is...the former Chair of the Colorado Republican Party."
Mic drop...
And don't get me started on the aborted 2018 House race in NC, which actually forced a complete redo. Surely that was Dems? Ooops, nevermind...
"Curtis was the state’s GOP chairman from 1997 to 1999, and caused a stir ahead of the 2016 election when he said on KLZ 560: “It seems to be, and correct me if I’m wrong here, but virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats."
Now fast forward to 2017...
"Steve Curtis, the former chairman for the Colorado Republican Party, was found guilty Thursday by a Weld County jury of voter fraud and forgery.
Curtis, 58, was arrested in March and accused of signing his wife’s mail-in ballot for her, which is a misdemeanor in Colorado. He was also charged with forgery of a public record, a fifth-degree felony.
His ex-wife had moved to South Carolina and learned her ballot had already been cast when she called the county clerk to see how she could vote from there.
“He knew exactly what he was doing,” argued Deputy District Attorney Tate Costin during closing arguments. “He received it in the mail, opened it, voted, signed it, sealed it back up and sent it in. If he were going to sign a name during this confused diabetic state, wouldn’t he sign his own name? Why her name? She hadn’t even lived in the house for 11 months.”
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...ve-curtis-found-guilty-of-voter-fraud-forgery
Or on the Dem side, how about WVA postman Thomas Cooper who pled guilty this week to altering voter registrations on requests for absentee ballots? Oh wait, that was on the GOP side as well, since Cooper admitted to switching the ballot requests of people he didn't know from Dem TO GOP, as a "joke"...
"In April, per a statement from the Department of Justice, the county clerk found absentee ballot requests from eight voters that were tampered with a black ink pen, five of which had their party affiliation switched to Republican. Three others that had their affiliation already set to Republican were altered but did not have their political party changed. All ballots were located in Pendleton County."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/west-virginia-mail-carrier-guilty-104244819.html
Now, this can't be right, because our Dear Leader assured us that it's the dastardly Democrats who are eager to perpetrate massive fraud on the electoral process...
I think the spokesman for the Colo Dem Party (Eric Walker) summed this issue up quite succinctly...
"Voter fraud is a virtually non-existent problem that Republicans use as an excuse to justify voter suppression tactics. In fact, voter fraud is so rare that the only person to be charged and convicted of committing voter fraud in Colorado in the 2016 election is...the former Chair of the Colorado Republican Party."
Mic drop...
And don't get me started on the aborted 2018 House race in NC, which actually forced a complete redo. Surely that was Dems? Ooops, nevermind...