President Donald Trump's campaign manager Bill Stepien said he is comfortable with states sending out mail-in ballots for the November election, but only if it is a practice they have done before.
Stepien told Politico Playbook authors Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman that mail-in ballots are secure in states that have used the method in the past.
"I think in the states in which mail-in voting has already occurred, it's fine by me," he said. "They've shown in most instances that it works — it's been proven over years."
He said he has concerns with governors, especially Democrats, who are looking to start or expand the practice without enough time to roll it out before the November election.
"I think our concern on the campaign is when 80 days, 90 days out from Election Day, you have Democrat governors changing the rules," he told Politico, calling it "a scary proposition."
He singled out his home state of New Jersey and said Gov. Phil Murphy "is making promises to the voters of New Jersey that he can't guarantee that he can keep."
Murphy announced the November election will mostly be held by mail.
Stepien also said concerns that the U.S. Postal Service can't handle an influx of mail-in ballots is misguided. He said it is the local and county clerks who are not equipped to handle the surge of ballots.
"This is not a Postal Service issue," he said. "This is a local and county clerk issue. They simply don't have the bandwidth to be accepting millions upon millions of ballots, not with 80 or 90 days to prepare. Eight or nine years to prepare? Sure, maybe. Eighty or 90 days and that's just irresponsible."
Forty-two states and the District of Columbia will allow voters to vote by mail for any reason in the November election, Politico reports.
Stepien said "universal vote-by-mail laws that are trying to be hurried through, ballot harvesting — these are all things that are very scary to people who want, expect, and deserve to have all their votes counted and accounted for."
Trump has repeatedly voiced his concerns about mail-in ballots. He has said they would lead to a fraudulent election.
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