"The truly bad stuff is in states like Pennsylvania... where you're talking about universal ballots just being mailed to everybody. OK? Can we just report this correctly to the people listening?" - @DanCrenshawTX to me.

Yes. The congressman was wrong. 1/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3173&v=47gjmaW5YgM&feature=emb_logo

Pennsylvania is not universally mailing ballots to everybody. The state allows for *applications* to be sent to registered voters—something Crenshaw initially said he was OK with—but it does not send ballots unsolicited.

This was a repeated point of contention in our Q&A. 2/

There are states mailing out ballots, and states mailing out *applications* for ballots.

Crenshaw conflated these processes in our Q&A, and I'm trying to distinguish them.

He's right that Nevada is mailing ballots to all RVs. But Pennsylvania and 40 other states are not.

We have 9 states (CA, CO, HI, NV, NJ, OR, UT, VT, WA) plus D.C. that automatically mail ballots to registered voters.

Only one, Nevada, could broadly be considered a swing state. To be clear: It's not true that we're flooding battleground states w/ unsolicited ballots. 4/

At first, when I raised the subject of voters receiving *applications* for ballots, Crenshaw said:

"if you have to identify who you are, prove who you are, and request that absentee ballot, like we're doing in Texas, that's fine. I don't perceive a lot of problems with that"

5/

When I circled back—reminding him Trump had criticized mailing out *applications*—Crenshaw changed his tune

"We're critical... because it's totally unnecessary and it's an attempt to get us to this universal mail-in ballot, so we see it as an unnecessarily provocative idea"

6/