https://www.npr.org/2020/05/15...er-vote-by-mail-push
Republican state officials who want to expand absentee and mail-in voting during the pandemic have found themselves in an uncomfortable position due to their party's rhetoric.
President Trump has claimed repeatedly, without providing evidence, that mail-in voting is ripe for fraud and bad for the GOP. He and other Republicans have charged that Democrats might use it to "steal" the election.
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams told NPR he got his "head taken off" by some fellow Republicans for his plan to send every registered voter a postcard telling them how they can easily apply for an absentee ballot for the state's June 23 primary.
"The biggest challenge I have right now is making the concept of absentee voting less toxic for Republicans," he said.
Adams said the presumption that absentee voting is less secure is frustrating because Kentucky has sa***uards in place to protect against fraud — including requiring people to apply for ballots instead of automatically sending them to everyone on the voter rolls.
But Adams admitted he is partly to blame. Like many Republicans, he ran for office on a platform of fighting voter fraud. His campaign slogan was to "make it easy to vote and hard to cheat."