This Washington Post story is a prime example of what bias in journalism looks like.
The headline is ridiculous.
Despite what WaPo claims, the GOP’s goal is not at all to challenge efforts to make voting easier.
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The Washington Post sets the story up as “election officials” who are trying to ensure ballot access & protect public health.
But that is not at all what is happening.
Dem Govs are trying to do this administratively.
We're responding & trying to protect the integrity of the ballot.
You can’t make that up.
And the Wisconsin governor himself dragged his feet on making changes to their election process until it was way too late.
This is not at all what we are doing.
In fact we are very open to being flexible on changes in light of the pandemic.
Media bias doesn’t just present itself with how stories are written, but also with the details they don’t include.
This is a prime example.
But you would never know that or even have a chance to hear that argument in this Washington Post story.
It is critical to preserve the integrity of the process if states expand the availability of mail voting.
States should not mail a ballot to every registered voter, particularly inactive voters, as this creates an opportunity for fraud.
States should maintain identity verification measures like signature matching or alpha-numeric identifying information requirements.
While the RNC wants to ensure no voters are disenfranchised, national vote by mail would open the door to new problems like election fraud & ballot harvesting.
We must protect against that.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.