‘The View’ Host Whoopi Goldberg shouted down co-host Sunny Hostin for being on her phone in the middle of their show. In her confusion, it appears as if Hostin may have just admitted to committing voter fraud. Hostin explained that she was texting her son about completing his absentee ballot for him.
At first, it wasn’t made clear if she filled the form out for him or just simply delivered it, but Hosting went on to clarify that she nearly placed his ballot in what appeared to be a ‘Target bag’.
“I was told to put it in the orange bag on the floor and the orange bag to me looked like a Target bag or something. And I said, “Isn’t there a formal election box that says absentee ballots or something like that?” And then she said, “let me check.” And then found it,” Hostin explained.
The Host’s son is away at college in Massachusetts but officially lives in New York. Which, according to New York States election laws, Hostin does have the ability to drop off her son’s ballot on his behalf. “If you cannot pick up your ballot, you have the right to designate someone to pick it up for you. Only that person designated on your application may pick up and deliver your ballot,” New York’s election website says.
Also according to the state’s laws, her son had to be the one who signed and sealed the envelope but the host made it sound like she may have completed the voting process on his ‘behalf’. If she filled out the ballot and/or signed the envelope as his proxy, that could be illegal and could possibly be considered voter fraud.
Another concern I have is where was his ballot delivered. If it was sent to his home in New York, why didn’t he drop it off himself? If the ballot was received at his school it wouldn’t make sense for him to have filled it out there and then, what? Mailed it to his mother to deliver instead of mailing it in himself?
Partial Transcript Provided By NewsBusters:
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Listen, it is going to be what it is going to be, people are tense, people are nervous, you know, and people are coming out in droves. And yeah, there’s negative, there’s positive on both sides. It just happens, you can’t help it people just — put that phone down, girl! God bless you!
SUNNY HOSTIN: It’s my son.
[Laughter]
Who, by the way, wanted to make sure that his absentee ballot was — that I did that and I had trouble actually voting for him absentee ballot today and that made me very concerned. It’s the first time.
JOY BEHAR: Why? What Happened?
HOSTIN: I was told to put it in the orange bag on the floor and the orange bag to me looked like a Target bag or something. And I said, “Isn’t there a formal election box that says absentee ballots or something like that?” And then she said, “let me check.” And then found it.
BEHAR: Wow.
HOSTIN: So, that concerned me. So, he wanted to make sure that he voted.
GOLDBERG: It should concern you. Lot of the things that we’ve heard all year about how people are being blocked. But the beautiful thing is, it doesn’t seem to be stopping people. Because people are coming out in droves!
[Applause]
HOSTIN: Exactly. Exactly.
GOLDBERG: They’re coming out in droves to vote. And that’s what we want to know.
