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Melissa Hart: “Secretary Schmidt has made recommendations...that the mailed…”

Featuring: Melissa Hart, Conservative | Former Candidate, Governor of Pennsylvania

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Strengthening Trust in Our Elections_ A Conversation with the Democracy Defense Project

Published | Video Starts at 17:35

And I mentioned earlier the guidelines. But what he's done is to try to make it more uniform from one county to the next. You know, nobody's going to sit here … Secretary Schmidt has made recommendations...that the mailed votes...should be able to be opened and prepared for the final count a few days earlier. … make our system more efficient because part of what makes the public suspect there's some kind of shenanigans going on is that they don't know the answer right away. (17:35–17:54)

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Asserts that Secretary Schmidt recommends allowing mailed votes to be opened and prepared before election day.

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