Thread by @TimAlberta, "The truly bad stuff is in states like Pennsylvania... where you're talking [...]

Tim Alberta

TimAlberta

"The truly bad stuff is in states like Pennsylvania... where you& #39;re talking about universal ballots just being mailed to everybody. OK? Can we just report this correctly to the people listening?" - @DanCrenshawTX to me.

Yes. The congressman was wrong. 1/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3173&v=47gjmaW5YgM&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Pennsylvania is not universally mailing ballots to everybody. The state allows for *applications* to be sent to registered voters—something Crenshaw initially said he was OK with—but it does not send ballots unsolicited.

This was a repeated point of contention in our Q&A. 2/

There are states mailing out ballots, and states mailing out *applications* for ballots.

Crenshaw conflated these processes in our Q&A, and I& #39;m trying to distinguish them.

He& #39;s right that Nevada is mailing ballots to all RVs. But Pennsylvania and 40 other states are not.

We have 9 states (CA, CO, HI, NV, NJ, OR, UT, VT, WA) plus D.C. that automatically mail ballots to registered voters.

Only one, Nevada, could broadly be considered a swing state. To be clear: It& #39;s not true that we& #39;re flooding battleground states w/ unsolicited ballots. 4/

At first, when I raised the subject of voters receiving *applications* for ballots, Crenshaw said:

"if you have to identify who you are, prove who you are, and request that absentee ballot, like we& #39;re doing in Texas, that& #39;s fine. I don& #39;t perceive a lot of problems with that"

5/

When I circled back—reminding him Trump had criticized mailing out *applications*—Crenshaw changed his tune

"We& #39;re critical... because it& #39;s totally unnecessary and it& #39;s an attempt to get us to this universal mail-in ballot, so we see it as an unnecessarily provocative idea"

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