• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Elections / Ashcroft on expanded mail-in voting: “It’s just not the most secure way to hold an election”

Ashcroft on expanded mail-in voting: “It’s just not the most secure way to hold an election”

May 18, 2020 By Missourinet Contributor

The Missouri Legislature has adopted a bill that would allow more mail-in voting during this year’s August and November elections. Voters could cast an absentee ballot by saying they are ill if they are 65 or older, live in a nursing home or have certain health problems. All other voters could mail in their ballot without an excuse, but they must first get it notarized.

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (file photo courtesy of the Secretary of State’s office)

Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says it’s appropriate during a state of emergency to make sure every voter can be safe, but expanded mail-in voting is not what he prefers.

“It’s just not the most secure way to hold an election,” he tells Missourinet affiliate KSSZ in Columbia. “The gold standard for elections is to have people in person go to their assigned polling place on Election Day.”

Ashcroft, a Republican, says he has security concerns with expanded mail-in voting, but he gets it during a state of emergency.

“I think it’s appropriate that we make sure that every voter in Missouri can vote safely,” he says.

Ashcroft says the likely spike in mail-in ballots for this year’s elections will make it tougher on local election officials. A two-person team, a Republican and a Democrat, checks to make sure each of those ballots is legit.

The bill is awaiting the governor’s consideration.

Brad Tregnago of KSSZ in Columbia contributed to this story

Copyright © 2020 · Missourinet

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Elections, Health / Medicine, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Missouri legislature, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft

Subscribe to our daily newsletter


Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Missouri State earns bearth into FCS Football Playoffs

For the … [Read More...]

Salvy’s blast sparks Royals past Blue Jays

Brady … [Read More...]

Cardinals offense shut down by Nola in loss to Phillies

Aaron Nola … [Read More...]

Mizzou soccer coach Bryan Blitz steps down

Bryan … [Read More...]

Palou takes INDYCAR opener; Bowman takes Richmond; Verstappen over Hamilton in F1.

By Bob … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC