Donald Trump apparently does NOT want people to vote-by-mail. On Wednesday, he threatened to withhold aid for Michigan and Nevada if the states allowed residents to vote-by-mail.

Many Republicans like to say absentee voting is "ripe for fraud" but the NUMBERS don't substantiate this. According to NE former Republican Secretary of State John Gale, there were only 2 cases of Class IV felony charges out of 860,000 votes cast in 2016. That’s a % of 0.00023.

If you believe in DEMOCRACY, you should support voting-by-mail. In our recent Nebraska primary election, thanks to a MASSIVE vote-by-mail effort, the total number of Nebraska voters surged to an all-time high of 471,434.

(By comparison, in 2016, only 313,000 ballots were cast).

This is the MOST people we've had voting in 48 years! (The previous high was 413,015 in 1972).

As Americans, the fact that more people are voting should EXCITE us but Donald Trump and some politicians don’t like it when more people vote. Why? Because it hurts their chances.

We've seen voter suppression efforts before in America. In the Jim Crow South, arcane poll taxes and literacy tests were enacted to DISENFRANCHISE voters. Still today, politicians GERRYMANDER districts to improve their chances.

This stinks. Elections should be won on ideas, NOT by subverting the election process.

I wholeheartedly support Voting-by-Mail. Let's get MORE people involved in the political process not fewer. This is what Democracy looks like.