CBS ignores its own evidence that mail-in voting is a problem

Newsbusters:
Do the journalists at CBS even watch their own reporting? On Thursday, reporter Weijia Jiang offered a fact check on Donald Trump’s concerns about mail-in voting, saying he has criticized it “without providing evidence.” But you know who did provide evidence? CBS
On Thursday’s CBS This Morning, Jiang chided, “The ongoing pandemic is also creating uncertainty about November's election. The President continued to say that mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud without providing evidence.” The CBS graphic warned, “President Attacks Mail-In Voting: Argues Without Evidence That It Will Lead to Widespread Fraud.” 
First off, a nationwide mail-in election has never happened. So citing a lack of evidence for something that hasn’t happened is a questionable objection. Secondly, whether it’s fraud or just incompetence, CBS itself has shown the problem with mail-in voting. 
On July 26CBS Weekend News journalist Tony Dokoupil set up an experiment. He created a campaign “headquarters” in Philadelphia and mailed 100 “ballots” to himself through the U.S. Post Office. After four days, only 79 percent of the ballots had arrived. Eventually, after going to the Post Office to complain, Dokoupil got 97 ballots. 
A three percent failure rate in mail-in voting would be a disaster. As Dokoupil himself put it: 
So of our one hundred ballots, 97 arrived, which sounds pretty good unless you consider the fact that that means three people who tried to vote by mail in our mock election were, in fact, disenfranchised by mail. In a close election, three percent could be pivotal, especially in what’s expected to be a record year for mail-in voting.
NBC on Tuesday admitted that New York’s mail-in voting for a congressional primary had been a “fiasco.” Six weeks after the election, the vote still wasn’t called. 
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This what happens when a media outlet is so intent on criticizing the President that they ignore their own work.  This “without evidence” meme has been overused by most of the mainstream media and they should try doing actual reporting on the facts.

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