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Carter affirms safety of mail-in voting after Barr and White House cite him to diminish it

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Carter affirms safety of mail-in voting after Barr and White House cite him to diminish it
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This story is from CNN by Caroline Kelly and Gisela Crespo:

Jimmy Carter is pushing back on efforts by Attorney General William Barr and the White House to use the former Democratic president’s work studying voting by mail to discredit the practice.

“I approve the use of absentee ballots and have been using them for more than five years,” Carter said in a statement Thursday.

He also contextualized his findings from a mail-voting commission in 2005 that Barr and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany have employed to disparage voting by mail.

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