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| We're joined now by Matthew Weill. | ||
| He is Vice President of Democracy and Bipartisanship at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joining us to talk about election security and mail-in voting. | ||
| Matthew, welcome to the program. | ||
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Thank you for having me. | |
| So let's just kind of set the table first. | ||
| I want to play you President Trump talking about mail-in voting and what he says is corrupt, and then have you comment on it. | ||
| Mail-in ballots are corrupt. | ||
| Mail-in ballots, you can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots. | ||
| And we, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots. | ||
| We're going to start with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they're corrupt. | ||
| And you know that we're the only country in the world, I believe I may be wrong, but just about the only country in the world that uses them because of what's happened. | ||
| Massive fraud all over the place. | ||
| The other thing we want change are the machines. | ||
| For all of the money they spend, it's approximately 10 times more expensive than paper ballots. | ||
| And paper ballots are very sophisticated with the watermark paper and everything else. | ||
| We would get secure elections. | ||
| We'd get much faster results. | ||
| The machines, I mean, they say we're going to have the results in two weeks. | ||
| With paper ballots, you have the results that night. | ||
| Most people, almost, but most people, many countries use paper ballots. | ||
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It's the most secure form. | |
| Matthew, break that down for us as far as what the president said there. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Well, I think it's first most important to note that more than 90% of Americans are already voting on some form of paper ballot. | ||
| That's the first part. | ||
| I mean, I think the president has kind of conflated a few different things, right? | ||
| So we do have voting machines, but those voting machines nowadays are typically just scanning the paper ballots. | ||
| So you have most Americans writing onto the ballot using a pen, making their indications of who they want to vote for, and then those ballots get scanned. | ||
| And those are scanned at the polling place or during early voting. |