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Posted: 2020-04-02T16:12:29Z | Updated: 2020-04-03T07:19:24Z

The Republican speaker of the Georgia state House is not happy that election officials are making it easier for residents to vote from home in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

The state is mailing every registered voter a form so that they can request an absentee ballot for the May 19 primary election. Voters will also be able to cast ballots in person on Election Day, as well as during the three weeks of early voting beginning on April 27, but the state is trying to make it easier for people to vote from afar.

David Ralston, the state House speaker, has deep concerns about this system, in part because the possibilities of fraud are incredibly prevalent in this kind of voting, as he said in an interview with the Georgia news site FetchYourNews. (See video below.)

You dont know whos going to vote the ballot, said Ralston, who wants to push back the date of the primary.