President Trump again changed his argument against supporting mail ballots—tweeting a conspiracy theory that foreign nations could print and send counterfeit absentee ballots. Election officials from both parties say those concerns are not based in fact.
"Election officials spend a great deal of our time building in security measures," said Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, a Republican."The idea that people could print millions of ballots either within the country or external to the country, just on its face, is not going to pass muster with an election official.
"Ballots are built unique for each election. Each jurisdiction will normally have dozens to hundreds of unique ballot styles. Proofs for each ballot style are reviewed and tested to ensure the ballot scanners will read those ballots and only those ballots," Morrell said."Even ballots created on that system from a previous election cannot be read.
"You would need to replicate all of these elements exactly and do it for the 10,000-plus jurisdictions and hundreds of thousands of unique ballot styles within the U.S.," she said. Wyman even extended a personal invitation to Trump and Barr, to come to Washington state and inspect the county offices where mail ballots are inspected before they are counted.
"If the president really believes that there is this potential for vote rigging and fraud, the president needs to come to Washington and let me show him what we do here," Wyman said."We can answer those questions directly and maybe even make him believe that this election is going to be fair."
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