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A few months ago, we did an episode responding to the beginning of the left's call to make mail-in voting the standard for voting throughout the entire country.

Our guest, Hans von Spikovsky, walked us through why voting by mail is a potential recipe for election disaster.

In every single state, you can vote by absentee ballot if you can't make it to the polls.

But what's going on here is that the progressive left wants to get rid of all of the security measures that are in place to try to cut down on fraud.

That's why, for example, Pelosi's bill would have said you have to allow vote harvesting in every state.

In other words, you have to allow

candidates and party organizations to come pick up your ballot, which is a horrible idea.

We should leave it up to local authorities to decide what is the safest thing to do. Can

they open polling places? Should they not open polling places? Should they just have an absentee ballot

election? What's the best way to handle it? It depends on local conditions, and we ought to leave

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