A progressive advocacy group so far has contacted 275,000 young Arizonans by phone and text to ask them to make sure they are registered to vote and consider using a mail-in ballot.
“During a pandemic, voting by mail is absolutely essential to ensure that everyone casts their ballots safely,” Azza Abuseif, NextGen America’s Arizona state director, said in a written statement. “Right now, the president is spreading misinformation about stoking fear around mail-in ballots in an attempt to restrict the electorate.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance on elections during a pandemic states that large crowds and long lines could risk spreading COVID-19 and suggests that voters consider alternative ways to cast their ballot.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that mail-in ballots will lead to substantial voter fraud and corruption, although his allegations have been widely discredited.