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malaise

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Fri Sep 4, 2020, 08:11 PM Sep 2020

Jimmy Carter endorses absentee ballots after White House cites him

https://www.ajc.com/politics/jimmy-carter-endorses-absentee-ballots-after-white-house-cites-him/DY6Z33IMEBD7NBQXE6VLV4ZKOM/
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Former President Jimmy Carter underscored his support of absentee ballots, pushing back against senior Trump administration officials who cited his 2005 study on mail-in-voting to question the practice in recent days.


In a short statement released late Thursday by the Carter Center, the Plains resident said, “I approve the use of absentee ballots and have been using them for more than five years.”

Carter’s comments came shortly after Attorney General William Barr referenced a bipartisan report by the Federal Election Reform Commission, which Carter co-chaired with former Secretary of State James Baker in 2005, to cast doubt on mail-in-voting.

The commission concluded that “mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion,” Barr said in a Wednesday interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

Carter linked back to a May statement in which the Carter Center urged federal and state governments to expand access to vote-by-mail and “provide adequate funding as quickly as possible to allow for the additional planning, preparation, equipment, and public messaging that will be required.”

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So in plain English Carter politely told the Con, DisBarr and the Ninny to fuck off with their lies. Love this man
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Jimmy Carter endorses absentee ballots after White House cites him (Original Post) malaise Sep 2020 OP
Great response. Arkansas Granny Sep 2020 #1
K&R! SheltieLover Sep 2020 #2
Thank you, President Carter. niyad Sep 2020 #3
I genuinely great man malaise Sep 2020 #4
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