President Donald Trump has been emphatic in his call to stop the counting of mail-in election votes. He first declared on Wednesday morning that " we want all voting to stop," and followed up on Thursday with a tweet saying “ STOP THE COUNT!”. Trump's remarks came at a time when his lead over former Vice President Joe Biden narrowed in Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Andrea Cabral, former secretary of public safety and sheriff of Suffolk County, spoke to Boston Public Radio on Thursday about what she said were voter supression efforts going on in the 2020 election.
"The voter suppression efforts have probably never been more blatant and more explicit and more shameless," she said. "It's not that voter suppression hasn't existed for years, it's just that the explicit and brazen nature of it is unprecedented — to come out and say, 'We only want the votes that support us to count, and everybody else's be damned.'"
Cabral is the former secretary of public safety and sheriff of Suffolk County. She is currently the CEO of Ascend.
