OPINION — President Trump recently put out an executive order attempting to restrict mail-in voting. Trump loathes mail ballots — except, of course, when he votes by mail himself, as he did this year in Florida.
Broad, cross-partisan swaths of our electorate benefit from this convenient way to exercise our most basic democratic right. Working Americans in particular have a stake in defending mail-in voting.
Economic hurdles to election participation drop when people can fill out their ballots at their kitchen table and pop them in a mailbox. For one thing, you don’t have to worry about asking your boss for time off to go to the polls. Currently, only 21 states require employers to give their workers paid leave for voting, and enforcement of this benefit is weak.
