Kellyanne Conway Voted By Mail — But She Thinks You Should Have To Wait In Line
WASHINGTON — White House aide Kellyanne Conway — who, like her boss, the president, is falsely attacking voting by mail as prone to fraud — cast her own ballot by mail to vote in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the 2018 midterm election.
On Wednesday, Conway said voters should vote in person and compared it to the sacrifice involved in buying designer cupcakes.
“I mean, they wait in line for a Georgetown Cupcake for an hour, to get a cupcake,” she told reporters at the White House. “So, I think they can probably wait in line to do something as consequential and critical and constitutionally significant as cast their ballot.”
Yet Conway was apparently unwilling to make that time commitment herself on Nov. 6, 2018, when she voted by mail, according to the Bergen County supervisor of elections.
Conway, who with her husband continues to own a home in northern New Jersey, tried to draw a distinction between an absentee ballot and a mail ballot, although many states — including New Jersey ― have no such distinction and allow voters to cast ballots by mail without having to assert that they will be out of town.
“That’s called an absentee ballot. One completes it and posts it by U.S. Mail,” Conway wrote in response to a HuffPost query. “Don’t confuse it with a (non-absentee) ‘mail-in ballot’ to serve your purposes.”
Records from the New Jersey Division of Elections show that the 2018 midterm was the first election in which Conway voted by mail rather than in person. The records also indicate she failed to vote at all in the 2017 election, in which Democrat Phil Murphy defeated Republican Kim Guadagno to become governor.
White House officials generally have been repeating President Donald Trump’s claims that mail balloting is rife with fraud. “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,” Trump wrote in a post this week that earned a first-ever fact check warning from...
