If you could vote from your sofa with a cold pint and a laptop to look up the candidates and issues, would you? That’s the reality in five states right now. And with Covid-19 creating concerns about being out in public, a lot of Texans think it might be safer if they vote from afar. In fact, Texas Democrats had a big legal win last week after a judge ruled that any Texan can now request a mail-in ballot – not just senior citizens and those with a disability. Conservatives are concerned about ballot security and people influencing your vote. But in places like Washington state, vote by mail has worked well for years. In this episode, we get a Texans take on it after she just moved from Seattle to Dallas. The Jasons also heard from the former elections administrator from Denver, Colo. who now runs a national non-profit advocating for voting at home across the country and they got the Secretary of State from Washington state on the line – Kim Wyman – who is one of the few Republicans elected to statewide office on the west coast. She tells the Jasons why it works in Washington.

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https://www.voteathome.org/

https://www.sos.wa.gov/office/kim-wyman.aspx