The national Committee of the Republican party (NCRP) appealed to the court demanding to ban the authorities of California to send residents of the state ballots by mail in the upcoming November presidential election. This is stated in a statement posted Sunday on Twitter, the official representative NCRP Ronna McDaniel.
She said that as Complainants were also made by the office of the Republican party in California and the Committee to support Republicans running for the House of representatives of the Congress of the United States. Earlier this month the Governor of California Gavin Newsom, being a Democrat, ordered in light of a pandemic of the novel coronavirus to send to all residents of the state having the right to vote, the ballots. Visitors will be able to vote in November at the polls.
As said McDaniel, the plaintiffs believe that the mailing of ballots "provides more opportunities for fraud" in the election. In NCRP the plan Newsom was called a radical and compared with an attempt to "seize power".
According to the Fox News channel, the paper draws attention to the fact that sent by mail ballots can intercept persons trying to illegally influence the outcome of the election. Republicans believe there are cases when ballots mistakenly sent to the wrong address. According to them, when voting by mail on voter also easier to pressure.
The US President Donald trump on Sunday wrote on Twitter that the Democrats, organizing postal voting, trying to create conditions for fraud in the election. According to the American leader, his political opponents hope to use the coronavirus "as an excuse for cheating".
California is currently considered one of the States where positions of Democrats are strongest. Over the past few decades during the presidential election win in California has consistently won by democratic candidates. 59th U.S. presidential election is scheduled for November 3.
