{"id":1490981,"date":"2022-05-25T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490981"},"modified":"2022-05-25T07:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:15:57","slug":"ex-federal-elections-commission-chair-we-should-discourage-absentee-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-federal-elections-commission-chair-we-should-discourage-absentee-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Federal Elections Commission Chair: We Should Discourage Absentee Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-federal-elections-commission-chair-we-should-discourage-absentee-voting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490981&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-10\/GettyImages-1229319816.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=paVZEzar\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Federal Elections Commission Chair Brad Smith said the United States &#8220;should be discouraging absentee voting&#8221; and pushing citizens to vote in-person on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/about\/leadership-and-structure\/bradley-smith\/\">nominated<\/a> to the FEC by President Bill Clinton, tweeted his concerns about election fraud on Monday while the country is in primary election season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that we should have options for absentee and early in-person voting for those who need them. However, voting on election day should be the presumptive norm,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CommishSmith\/status\/1529176023027355648\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith laid out a series of reasons why absentee ballots are more prone to problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While election fraud is rare, he said it is more common with absentee ballots. These types of ballots are also &#8220;more likely to be rejected due to voter error,&#8221; Smith noted.<\/p>\n<p>Absentee balloting can &#8220;opportunities for coercion, intimidation, and influence, and can jeopardize the secret ballot,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In-person voting supports voters&#8217; feeling of confidence in election results, Smith observed.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized early voting, which he stated does not increase voter turnout but increases opportunities for misconduct by election officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Federal Elections Commission Chair Brad Smith said the United States &#8220;should be discouraging absentee voting&#8221; and pushing citizens to vote in-person on Election Day.Smith, a Republican nominated to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}