J. Christian Adams on Mail-In, Absentee Voting in 2020 Election

The Daily Signal Podcast

The Daily Signal

News, Government, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mail-in voting has sharply increased due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Pew Research Center reported in the 2016 general election, 24.9 percent of votes were absentee or mail-in and in the 2018 general election, 27.4 percent of votes were absentee or mail-in. But during the 2020 primaries, 50.3 percent of votes cast were absentee or mail-in.

Is election security at stake? What are some of the documented security vulnerabilities and problems associated with mail-in or absentee ballots? J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss.

We also cover these stories:

Three Republican senators are calling on the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about censorship and possible election interference.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation on Oct. 22.
Citing his son Barron's COVID experience, President Donald Trump said children should be back at school.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, October 16th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.3	And I'm Rachel Del Judas.
0:12.5	Is election security at stake?
0:14.7	That's the question paramount on so many people's minds as absentee in mail-in voting has skyrocketed
0:20.3	for the 2020 presidential election.
0:23.0	J Christian Adams, President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation,
0:27.2	joins me on the podcast to discuss.
0:29.8	And don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star
0:35.0	rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe. Now, on to our top news. News.
0:49.0	Three Republican senators are calling on the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify before the
0:55.1	Senate Judiciary Committee about censorship and possible election
0:59.6	interference. On Thursday, Senators Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and Josh Holly said they were going to
1:07.0	pursue filing a subpoena of the social media companies over what appears to be the suppression of a New York Post exclusive report which links
1:16.0	Vice President Joe Biden to his son, Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine.
1:22.1	The New York Post story explains that emails were discovered on an old laptop
1:26.8	belonging to Hunter Biden that reveal that Hunter Biden set up a meeting between his father,
1:32.0	who was vice president at the time, and a senior official from
1:35.9	Barisma, the Ukrainian energy firm.
1:38.6	Twitter blocked the story from being shared and even briefly locked the New York posts out of their Twitter
1:45.1	account. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Tuesday to subpoena Twitter
1:50.1	CEO Jack Dorsey. Cruz expressed his frustration with the media platform saying,
1:56.0	this is election interference and we're 19 days out from an election.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Daily Signal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Daily Signal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.