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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The White House pointed on Tuesday to the chaos of June’s congressional primary elections in the New York City metropolitan area to raise doubts about the viability of mail-in ballots for the general election.Due to the unprecedented number of absentee ballots cast, a number of contentious primary races are unresolved more than three weeks after in-person voting took place on June 23.AdvertisementWhite House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who called the elections an at her Tuesday press conference, also pointed to the high percentage of absentee ballots as a sign that making mail-in voting available nationwide would be impractical.“There are questions about mass mail-out voting,” McEnany concluded.McEnany was attacking New York’s elections to discredit the idea of expanded mail-in voting, which President sees as a political threat. In June, that mail-in voting, which he has baselessly alleged enables fraud, could cost him the election by making it easier for to vote.In a statement to HuffPost, Rich Azzopardi, a spokesperson for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), called McEnany’s remarks “absurd.”Yet notwithstanding McEnany’s cynical motives, she is taking advantage of New Yorkers’ real concerns that people are unfairly being disenfranchised. AdvertisementThe technical reasons for disqualified ballots are a source of frustration for good government advocates who have long argued that voting by mail should be easier and less vulnerable to human or bureaucratic error. A particularly galling example is that through no fault of voters, some post offices failed to stamp ballots with an ink postmark attesting that the ballot had been mailed by Election Day. (The day before the election, Common Cause New York and a host of other government reform groups to Cuomo expressing concern about the potential postmark problem and calling for him to allow envelopes that arrived by June 30 with missing or illegible postmarks to be presumed valid.)AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSuggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The White House pointed on Tuesday to the chaos of June’s congressional primary elections in the New York City metropolitan area to raise doubts about the viability of mail-in ballots for the general election.Due to the unprecedented number of absentee ballots cast, a number of contentious primary races are unresolved more than three weeks after in-person voting took place on June 23.AdvertisementWhite House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who called the elections an at her Tuesday press conference, also...

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