Fox News contributor Deroy Murdock, contributing editor for the National Review Online, joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend.'
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Appreciate it,
we are less than two months out
from election day. Two months and
Democrats are still moving full
speed ahead in their push for
universal mail in voting, but
a new poll reveals three in ten voter
s feel confident their mail
in ballots will be counted
accurately,
will lets bring in Fox NEWS
contributor, Deroy Murdock,
thanks for being with us this
morning. Are you surprised
by this that very very few
Americans seem to have much
faith in mail in ballots?
Well, they shouldnt
its a big mess.
The Democrats are bringing this
to us totally
unncesssarily, in which weve
seen a number of really scary
things already just a couple.
Just last week, big bags of mail
just dropped off at a parking
lot in Glenndale later on in an
Allie in San Fernando about
twelve miles away.
You could have this happen
during the election, and the
thing is: if ballots are
dropped off blank bag, lots
people expect, or that have been
filled outgoing in if they go a
stray theres very little way
of knowing thats happened and
also the u dot S. Postal service
standard is for political mail
that if we have ninety six percent, accurate
delivery, thats fine, perfectly
appropriate for them and their
performance standard. So if you
have eighty million ballots going
out and four percent dont get there
thats three point: two million ballots that
might not be counted so in a
tight election or a not so
tight election that can throw an
election not just for
president, but for Congress
for Senate for governor. What
have you completely astray?
Theres, a total disaster and the
stuff? The policies should
be, if youre, afraid of Covid 19.
If you have underlying
conditions, if youre, elderly or
disabled, you can get an
absentee ballot, you can
send that in. But what you should
not do is blast ballots,
Willy nilly all across a state
based on voter roles, full of
errors, people who have moved
away or died and multiple
examples where these ballots
show up in apartment, buildings,
people who moved away arent
there, people who died arent
there to collect them and they
are thrown in the trash and ive
held in my hands in Colorado,
half a dozen ballots that were
thrown away in an apartment,
building and ballot integrity
activists, retrieved them, and I
could vote six times for Corey
Gardner for Senate back in twenty fourteen,
and the same thing happened
in LAS Vegas and well see it
all around the country, and this
is a total disaster and we
need to stop this immediately or
well. Have a real disaster.
Pete youve done a great job,
laying this out exposing many
ways. This could be exploited.
What does it do to voting? If
people have very little
confidence, their ball? Lt may
actually count.
Does that mean they vote and
hope? Or does that mean? Maybe
they say im just not going to
do it altogether?
Whats the result?
Some people might get
frustrated and say im not
going to bother
what people should do is vote in
person.
The best way to have your ballot
counted is show up in person, and
another problem is, if you vote
at home, some people make
mistakes, theres, no fraud
involved here, rather than fill
in the bubble they put an x or
a stray mark somewhere, the
ballot is discounted and
thrown out.
We had twenty five percent of the ballots. I
believe here in my congressional
district here in New York just
thrown out because they were
filled out badly.
If you go to the polls, you can
ask somebody: do you fill it out?
This way, use a pencil use, a
crayon and a poll worker whose
trained in this will say. No. You
need to use a pen and fill out
this way and then your ballot
will be counted properly.
We need to get people to vote in
person as much as possible.
Thats the right way to do it.
Jedediah thanks so much for
being here Deroy on this,
its interesting lots of
concerns about this emerging
and mostly hearing voices on one
side. When, in fact, these problems
with mail in voting have the
potential to effect both
sides of the aisle so wish, we.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-12.