Dhillon’s Critique of Mail-In Voting: State-Level Focus

Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon told Newsmax that Americans have some valid concerns about mail-in voting.
Dhillon said the critical actions must be developed at the state level. People concerned about mail-in voting, she said, need to focus on their own state. “So it really relies on people to vote at the state level and get better laws at that local level for now,” Dhillon said.
At the federal level, Dhillon said some related proposals are slow to move. “There are some things that Congress could do regarding federal funding and having better standards, but they haven’t done that,” she said. “I’ve gone and testified in Congress, and maybe one day they will do those things.”
But for now, Dhillon said, what we can do at the Department of Justice is, we have jurisdiction over several federal civil rights laws involving voting, and we are vigorously enforcing those, including in this last election over the objections of a couple of blue states, but we did send election monitors where they were requested, and I could have sent more if more people had requested them.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Nov. 10 to hear Mississippi’s defense of a state law challenged by Republicans that allows a five-day grace period for mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, a case that could lead to stricter voting rules around the country. The court is expected to hear arguments and issue a ruling by the end of June.