all across the country (see link)...here's what "Politifact" had to say about the GOP's bogus claim...
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Obama was talking about the 2008 Florida presidential primary
The video shows MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asking Obama a question related to mail-in voting.
"They are talking about people mailing in their ballots. Do you trust the security, the honesty of such an election process?" Matthews asked.
Obama responded: "Well, I’d think we would have to figure out whether this was fraud-proof."
The video doesn’t clearly show the context of the interview; faint text on the screen says "Decision 08."
It would be possible for viewers to assume Obama was criticizing voting by mail in general, but Obama was commenting about a specific set of circumstances related to the presidential primary in Florida.
In 2007, the Florida Legislature moved up the date of the presidential primary to Jan. 29, earlier than either national party permitted. Hillary Clinton beat Obama, but the Democratic National Committee determined that the election violated party rules and stripped the state of its delegates. In March 2008, some Florida Democrats proposed a do-over election including a scenario of entirely voting by mail.
Here was Matthews’ full question on March 11, 2008, to then-Sen. Obama:
"There’s word from Florida that they intend to put out a mailing sort of a campaign — I mean, an election process, whereby they make up for the primary they had before, which was ruled out of order by the Democratic National Committee and you did not campaign in. They’re talking about mailing it — people mailing in their ballots. Do you trust the security, the honesty of such an election process?
The RNC video only included the first sentence of Obama’s cautious response. But Obama then made some positive statements about voting by mail:
"I mean, Oregon, for example, has a terrific mail-in system, but they’ve already scanned everybody’s signatures who’s registered to vote so that they can check to make sure that in fact the right people are voting. And that’s something that I think you’d have to figure out."
During the 2020 pandemic, Obama has not expressly called for only voting by mail. He called for safe voting options while tweeting a New York Times story that debunked the claim that absentee voting favors Democrats and an NPR story about proposals to expand voting by mail and early voting.
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In point of fact, Obama was wholeheartedly supporting Mail-In Voting...IF...as is done in states like Oregon, ALL voters' signatures are scanned beforehand...that wasn't being done in the Florida proposal.
Don't go making statements you can't back up...easy solution is to do a little research beforehand.
Link: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/14/republican-national-committee-republican/rnc-video-takes-biden-obama-wasserman-schultz-out-/