The Red State That Isn’t Worried About a Mail-In Election
<span>Utah has thoroughly embraced voting by mail with no problems. Why can’t the rest of the country follow suit?</span>
President Donald Trump has spent months trying to convince Americans that universal mail-in voting would be a disaster for democracy. It is “dangerous,” he says, potentially “catastrophic”—an “embarrassment” that would “make our country the laughingstock of the world.” Just this week, in his speech kicking off the Republican National Convention, Trump called voting by mail “the greatest scam in the history of politics.”
But while the president works to cast mail-in voting as a Democratic conspiracy to steal the election, Utah—one of the most conservative states in the country—has, the practice has bipartisan support, and there has been none of the widespread cheating that Trump warns about: “We have seen very, very little fraud,” Cox says.
