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The story claims that Republicans are blocking efforts by the Wisconsin Governor and Democrat groups to cancel in person voting and allow voters to vote AFTER election day. You can’t make that up.

What WaPo conveniently omits is that the leading Democrat candidate for President, Joe Biden, has opposed moving the Wisconsin primary date. And the Wisconsin governor himself dragged his feet on making changes to their election process until it was way too late.

The story bizarrely presents as fact that Republicans are “block[ing] attempts to make voting safer during a pandemic” 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.

We have made that abundantly clear, but The Washington Post completely ignored it and chose to adopt DNC talking points instead.

At no point in the story does it present arguments for why removing safeguards on mail or absentee ballots could lead to fraud. 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.

Republicans support efforts to ensure that no voters are disenfranchised due to emergency protocols in response to COVID-19. But you would never know that or even have a chance to hear that argument in this Washington Post story.

Here is our position that WaPo omitted: 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 could instead offer an absentee ballot application to active registered voters. States should maintain identity verification measures like signature matching or alpha-numeric identifying information requirements.